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

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