Jack Binns ~ Wireless Hero

The web is rich in websites that mention the Republic-Florida collision and/or Jack Binns.  Here is a selection:

• The official RMS Republic Website:  this is the richest site devoted to the Republic-Florida collision.  It is maintained by Martin Bayerle, the person who found the wreck of the Republic, and who believes that it contains a fortune in gold bullion.  Bayerle outlines the evidence for this belief in deep and convincing detail.  Here you can also find a large number of images pertinent to the event, as well as stories of the survivors.
• The American Experience | Rescue at Sea:  this is the website for the outstanding PBS documentary on the collision.  It focuses on Jack Binns, but also dramatizes the lives of passengers on the Republic and the Florida.
• Please go to Commemoration News for updates on the websites of Special Event Stations and news reports concerning the 100th Anniversary Commemoration Week-End, January 23-25, 2009.
  
• The Radio Officers Association is "the only Radio Society of Great Britain affiliated society that comprises members with a professional radio qualification. ROARS is a subsidiary of the Radio Officers Association, and membership includes a quarterly newsletter, "QSO," where an insightful article by David Barlow about Jack Binns was published December 2008. "ROARS runs the Lizard Marconi Wireless station, GB2LD, the oldest surviving Marconi coast station in the world, which has a display of spark gap transmitters."
• Visit The Lizard Marconi Wireless Station, the oldest surviving Marconi coast station, to learn more about this extraordinary station and its place in history.
• Jim Calvert at the University of Denver, Colorado, US, has created a very interesting website discussing the wireless equipment on the Republic http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/tel/marconi.htm; and a thorough description of telegraphy http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/tel/telhom.htm
• More to come!
  

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Binns and Jack Irwin, the operator at Siasconsett