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Shortly after midnight on this day in 1912 on the 13600ton Cunard liner Carpathia approximately 1100 miles east of Cape Cod wireless operator HT Cottam was preparing for bed after a long night of sending and receiving messagesThree hours earlier the Carpathias captain Arthur H Rostrom alarmed by warnings from other ships of ice in the vicinity asked Cottam what other vessels were within range of the wireless