Radio sets willl enable passengers, captains to talk with shore: April 8,1922 - Detroit Free Press:  

Seventeen ships of the Hutchinson Steamship Line, Cleveland, are to be equipped with radio as soon as the United States government grants a license. The equipping of the whole fleet at one time will be the biggest job ever undertaken, it is said. The work is to be done in time for the coming season's business, according to present plans. The Radio Corporation of America is fitting the big passenger ship SEEANDBEE, of the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit  Co., Cleveland, the largest freshwater passenger vessel in the world, with 200-watt radio telephone sets for the use of passengers. When this is done, passengers will be able to call up their fniends on shore and have a chat with them, and the captain will be able to communicate with the manager of his line without the intermediary of an operator. The same company is also fitting the steel bulk freight carrier CARL D. BRADLEY, and these will be the first vessels on the Great Lakes to be equipped with radio phones. In all of America, there are less than a half dozen vessels so equipped, the AQUITANIA, the AMERICA and two or three other sea-going ships. This does not, of course, include warships. Before a ship can be equipped with radio, appfication has to be made to the radio inspector, whose duty is to see that the installation is made in compliance with the law, and that the radio operator is a properly licensed man. It is expected that when big ships like the SEEADBEE get their radio phones going there will be a good deal of jamming and conrfusion, the law which was passed then radio was in its infancy being hopelessly out of date.