ship-to-shore

noun, a ship to shore radio telephone (COD)

“Well the phone is all ship-to-shore on the boat. And if that 911 goes, they call the boat first thing and say, ‘Be at the shore. There’s ambulances coming’.”

“We’d get stuck in the ice, and then they’d have to—well, ‘course there was no radio ship-to-shores or anything on them then, and they used to have to get the Salvage Prince, eh, at Point Salvage and come.”

“That’s the lighthouses on Main Duck. Yeah, there was three of them out there, the lightkeeper, the assistant lightkeeper, and they had the—I call it the wireless out there—but the ship-to-shore.