2006-07-26 10:51:27 · 21 answers · asked by shotgun2007 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Save Our Ship...when people were drowning, they'd send out SOS via morse code: ...---...
2006-07-26 10:54:13 · answer #1 · answered by Becky M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supposedly, it's "save our souls." In reality, it isn't an acronym, it's just a code, like 10-4. Here are some of the popular interpretations.
In popular usage, SOS became associated with phrases such as "Save Our Ship," "Save Our Souls," "Survivors On Ship," "Save Our Sailors" and "Send Out Sailors". However, these phrases were a later development, most likely used to help remember the correct letters- something known as a backronym. Other backronyms include Stuck On Site. In reality, it has no meaning.
2006-07-26 17:54:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save Our Ship
It is a distress signal sent out by ships
2006-07-26 17:54:28 · answer #3 · answered by EPnTX 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOS does NOT stand for anything - the Save our Souls/Ship stuff was added after the Titanic sank - the first time SOS was ever used.
2006-07-26 17:56:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOS is an international call sign for help in morse code, being 3 long beeps, then 3 short beeps, then 3 more long beeps, it can be produced in smoke signals and lights as well as radio transmisson.
2006-07-26 17:57:23 · answer #5 · answered by korniegirl1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save Our Ship... used as a distress call (in Morse Code) by ships out at sea that were in trouble.
2006-07-26 17:54:23 · answer #6 · answered by Killer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save Our Ship. or as the sailors used to say **** out of luck
2006-07-26 17:54:47 · answer #7 · answered by gary o 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the original use was in morse code to transmit a distress signal from a ship
2006-07-26 17:56:17 · answer #8 · answered by bobsled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save our Ship. It's another way of saving help!
2006-07-26 17:55:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Summon Our Salt
2006-07-26 17:55:06 · answer #10 · answered by Reptar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋