A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a salvage firm can retrieve the Marconi wireless telegraph machine that broadcast distress calls from the sinking Titanic ocean liner.
(AP Photo/Angie Wang, File)NORFOLK, Va. A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a salvage firm can retrieve the Marconi wireless telegraph machine that broadcast distress calls from the sinking Titanic ocean liner.
Smith is the maritime jurist who presides over Titanic salvage matters from a federal court in Norfolk.
Smith's order is a big win for RMS Titanic Inc., the court-recognized salvor, or steward, of the Titanics artifacts.
But she said the only matter before the court was the previous order made by the judge who preceded her.