S. Titanic. Cottam's crucial role in the disaster was honored in 2013 with a blue plaque on the wall of The Old Ship Inn in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, where he lived after retiring. The plaque reads: Later life Cottam continued to work as a shipboard wireless operator on various ships until 1922, when he married Elsie Jean Shepperson and took a job as a sales representative of the Mini Max Fire Extinguisher company. Cottam and his wife had four children, William, Jean, Sybil and Angus. Angus died in the late 1960s. Cottam retired and, in 1958, moved to Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, where he died in 1984. Notes References 1891 births 1984 deaths British radio people People from Southwell, Nottinghamshire RMS Titanic People from Lowdham