 From the morning of 14 April before the disaster, to the evening of 18 April, when "Carpathia" arrived in New York, Cottam did not go off duty and slept less than ten hours.He testified to the Senate that the first four days, he worked 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