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Harold Cottam, the Carpathia’s 21-year-old wireless operator, had planned to go to sleep. First, though, he sent the Titanic a message to let them know he’d picked up transmissions meant for the luxury liner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Come at once. We have struck a berg,” Jack Phillips, the Titanic’s wireless operator, responded. At 12:35 a.m., Cottam alerted Arthur Rostron, the captain of the transatlantic passenger liner, who threw on a dressing gown and headed his vessel toward the sinking ship, BBC News<\/a> reported in 2013.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n “All this time, we were hearing the Titanic, sending her wireless out over the sea in a last call for help,” Cottam told The New York Times<\/a> in 1912.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another ship, the Olympic, also heard the distress calls but was over 500 miles away, The Irish Independent<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n