” The last confirmed sighting of the ship happened a couple of days later, on Sunday afternoon, when a passing railcar ferry radioed shore to report the ship still afloat.”
I’m skeptical about this sentence in the article. commercial wireless radio was still in the womb in early 1899.
"The last confirmed sighting happened a couple of days later, on Sunday afternoon, when a passing railcar ferry reported the ship still afloat."
I'm assuming that they "reported" it after they had reached their destination.