Harold Cottam - Wireless Operator on the RMS Carpathia
Harold Thomas Cottam (1891-1984) - British wireless operator on the RMS Carpathia who fortuitously received the distress call from the sinking RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. Cottam woke Captain Arthur Henry Rostron to relay Titanic's message allowing Carpathia to arrive at the scene hours before any other ship and is "credited with saving hundreds of lives." He was a personal friend of the Titanic's junior wireless operator and survivor Harold Bride
Picture No
13542045
Media ID
47522059
Size
811px x 1647px
(329KB)
Credit
Mary Evans/Library of Congress
Source
Photograph by Underwood and Underwood, reproduced in The Arizona Republican, May 23, 1912 p11
Date
1912
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