Harold Cottam
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title:
Harold Cottam
text:
Harold Thomas Cottam was a British wireless operator on the RMS Carpathia who fortuitously happened to receive the distress call from the sinking RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. Cottam's decision to awaken Captain Arthur Henry Rostron and relay Titanic's message in spite of the scepticism of the officer on watch allowed 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 wireless operators Harold Br
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Wireless operator on the RMS Carpathia (1891–1984)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Cottam
date created:
2006-10-06T21:12:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T05:15:43Z
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