![]() ![]() Īs a Marconi employee, Cottam was subsequently assigned as a telegraphist at the British post office where, on separate occasions, he met and befriended both Jack Phillips and Harold Bride, who would later become the Titanic 's wireless operators. At the time, despite being stationed in a variety of locations on ship and land, wireless operators remained employees of the Marconi company. Afterward, he obtained a posting with the Marconi Company as second wireless operator on the RMS Empress of Ireland, sailing between Liverpool and Quebec. Īt 17, Cottam left home to study eleven months at the British College of Telegraphy in London, becoming the school's youngest graduate in 1908. 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 Bride and Jack Phillips.Ĭottam was born on 27 January 1891 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire to William Cottam and his wife Jane. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harold Thomas Cottam (27 January 1891 – ) 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. ![]()
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