almost non-stop around the clock, only falling asleep unintentionally once at his desk for three hours on the night of 16 April. In 1913, Rostron wrote that about 4:30 p.m. Monday 15 April, Carpathia responded to a request for information by RMS Olympic by sending "bare facts" and names of survivors, as well as official messages to the Cunard company, which took until 1:00 a.m. when Carpathia was out of range. He went on, "It was most difficult to get the names even, and the continuous strain at the instrument, the conditions under which the operator was working, and the constant interruptions made it anything but a simple matter." By either Tuesday or Wednesday evening (the testimony of Bride and Cottam differs on this point), Harold Bride, Titanics junior wireless operator, had come to assist Cottam, in spite of serious foot injuries he had incurred in the disaster. Cottam and Bride worked together, relaying official messages about the disaster and survivors to ships in the area, as well as messages to and from relatives of Titanic passengers. On Rostron's order, they ignored inquiries from journalists. Afterward, both Cottam and Bride stated that the volume of official and passenger messages was so great that they would not have had time to respond to media requests anyway. Immediately upon Carpathia's arrival in New York, Cottam told the Senate inquiry, he received his employer's permission to meet with the New York Times, which bought his story for $750. The story, "Titanic's "C.Q.D." Caught by a Lucky Fluke", was published the next day. Inquiries In April and May 1912, first in New York and then in Washington, D.C., Cottam was called on to testify on multiple occasions before the U.S. Senate inquiry into the disaster. Upon returning to England, he testified on 12 May 1912 before the British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry in London. Questions to Cottam at the inquiries sought to establish the disaster's timeline of events and standard wireless procedures, as well as wireless operators' obligations in emergency situations. Questioners also cited conflicting news reports and miscommunications from the various ships in the vicinity of the disaster and in communication with Carpathia. They asked numerous questions regarding whether Cottam had communicated with journalists or received instructions from the Marconi Company or one of the shipping lines not to share information he had been instructed to send. Cottam testified that, although he was an