Although wireless telegraphy had been developed more than a decade earlier, it was not in common use on aboard commercial vessels on the Great Lakes in 1902 and no communication ever took place between the "Algonquin" and the "Bannockburn".
Although wireless telegraphy had been developed more than a decade earlier, it was not in common use on aboard commercial vessels on the Great Lakes in 1902 and ship-to-ship communication was limited to whistles and signal rockets. No communication ever took place between the "Algonquin" and the "Bannockburn".