The message was one of the most important warnings Titanic received, but it was never delivered to the bridge. Mesaba 's wireless operator waited for Phillips to report that he had given the report to the bridge, but Phillips continued working Cape Race. Phillips acknowledged Mesaba 's warning and continued to transmit messages to Cape Race. Shortly after 21:30, Phillips received an ice warning from the steamship Mesaba reporting a large number of icebergs and an ice field directly in Titanic 's path. Bride was asleep in the adjoining cabin, intending to relieve Phillips at midnight, two hours early. On the evening of 14 April, in the wireless room on the boat deck, Phillips was sending messages to Cape Race, Newfoundland, working to clear a backlog of passengers' personal messages that had accumulated when the wireless had broken down the day before. Phillips celebrated his 25th birthday the day after the voyage began. Titanic sailed for New York City, United States, from Southampton, England, on 10 April 1912, and during the voyage Phillips and Bride transmitted passengers' personal messages and received iceberg warnings and other navigational information from other ships. Stories have appeared that Phillips knew Bride before Titanic, but Bride insisted they had never met before Belfast. He was joined by junior wireless operator Harold Bride. In March 1912, Phillips was sent to Belfast, Ireland, to be the senior wireless operator on board Titanic for her maiden voyage. In May 1908, he was assigned to the Marconi station outside Clifden, Ireland, where he worked until 1911, when he was assigned to the Adriatic and later, in early 1912, to the Oceanic. He later worked on board Cunard's Campania the Allan Line's Corsican, Pretorian and Victorian and then Cunard's Lusitania and Mauretania. Phillips's first assignment was on the White Star Line ship Teutonic. He started training to work in wireless for the Marconi Company in March 1906, in Seaforth, and graduated five months later in August. He finished school in 1902 and began working at the Godalming post office, where he learned telegraphy. Educated at a private school on Hare Lane, then St John Street School, Phillips sang as a choirboy at St John the Evangelist – Farncombe's church. Phillips lived with his five siblings, of whom only two twin sisters survived to adulthood, above a draper's shop – Gammons – which his father managed in Farncombe Street.
The son of George Alfred Phillips, a draper and Ann (née Sanders), Phillips' family originally came from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, from a lineage of weavers, but moved to Farncombe around 1883. Phillips was born on 11 April 1887 in Farncombe, Surrey. After they struck the iceberg, however, Phillips did his utmost to contact other ships for assistance. Another from the nearby SS Californian was ignored altogether. When the steamship Mesaba sent an ice alert, he acknowledged it, but failed to pass it on to the bridge. His consequent failure to respond to incoming signals is cited as a principal cause of the disaster. On the final evening, Phillips had been exceptionally busy clearing a backlog of messages caused by a wireless breakdown. John George Phillips (11 April 1887 – 15 April 1912) was a British sailor and the senior wireless operator aboard the Titanic during her ill-fated maiden voyage in April 1912. Senior Wireless Operator Aboard The RMS Titanic
North Atlantic Ocean (either onboard or near the site of the sinking of the RMS Titanic (111 Years Ago)
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