What is SOS?

Question

SOS is a commonly used term what is the full form of it ?

Answer 1

Save Our Ship," "Save Our Souls," "Survivors On Ship," "Save Our Sailors" "Stop Other Signals" and "Send Out Sailors"...which ever applies in terms of usage

Answer 2

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S.O.S.
The international Morse code distress signal, S.O.S., is another "word" with a false acronymic origin. S.O.S. does not stand for Save Our Souls, Save Our Ship, Stop Other Signals, Sure Of Sinking, or any other phrase.

S.O.S. was chosen as the universal distress signal by the International Radio Telegraph Convention of July 1908 because this combination of three dots followed by three dashes followed by three dots (...---...), was easy to send and easily recognized, especially since they were usually sent as a nine-character signal, which stood out against the background of three-character Morse Code letters. The letters themselves are meaningless.

The first recorded mention of the false acronymic origin is in reference to the Titanic sinking of 1912, which may account for its wide spread and endurance.

Prior to 1908, the high seas distress signal consisted of the letters C.Q.D., which many took it to mean Come Quickly, Danger. Actually this term is a combination of the letters C & Q, the standard radio hail meaning essentially "calling all stations" or "is anyone out there?" and the nonsense letter D. Some suppose that the D stands for distress, but this is not documented. Use of C.Q.D. continued past 1908, and the Titanic's initial distress calls used this older signal. It was not until that ship was near sinking did the radiomen send out the new signal.

Answer 3

Save Our Souls

Answer 4

SOS, code letters of the international distress signal. The signal is expressed in International Morse code as ...———... (three dots, three dashes, three dots). This combination was established by the International Radiotelegraphic Convention at Berlin in 1906. The letters (SOS) do not refer to any words but were selected because they are easy to transmit.

In popular usage, SOS became associated with phrases such as "Save Our Ship," "Save Our Souls," "Survivors On Ship," "Save Our Sailors" "Stop Other Signals" 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.

Answer 5

It is used last time by ship in the open sea for emergency...Save our ship or save our soul. This can be translated by using a torch light if say you are in somewhere wet, dark, foul smelling, can move due to spasm of your muscles. If I'm not mistaken 3 short flash and 3 long flash and so on...

Answer 6

SOS is the Morse code call for help. It was once widely used by ships and aircrafts in distress. SOS does not stand for anything. It was chosen as a distress signal because it was convenient to send by telegraph. The international code for SOS consists of three dots, three dashes, and three dots.

Answer 7

Save our Ship

Answer 8

Wikipedia: SOS
SOS is the commonly used description for the International Morse ... see SOS (disambiguation) ... From the beginning, the SOS distress signal has actually ...
Quick Links: Detailed review - Early developments - SOS created in Germany
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Answer 9

Save Our Souls used to send distress signals of people in need of help of any form

Answer 10

An sos is a ship distress call. It means save our ship.

Answer 11

Save our souls, when someone is in distress an sos message is sent. Sos messages were sent when ships were in distress