distress signal
distress call

"Did we just receive a distress call of any nature?"

However, we have just received a distress call on Blue channel.

She sent out her first distress call 25 minutes later.

We sent out a distress call and hoped for the best.

"That I was part of a team sent in answer to the distress call."

The distress call went dead only a few seconds later.

In fact, it used to be a standard distress call.

If that is the case, the distress call provides a way to find out.

If this wasn't a true distress call, they were certainly making a good show of it.

We've been trying to reach the ship ever since we got the distress call, but there's no response.