Titanic Officer. William McMaster Murdoch, the fourth child and youngest son of Samuel Murdoch. His father and grandfather were both sea captains as were four of his grandfather's brothers. He served aboard the Medic and the Runic on the Australian run. Later he was transferred to the Atlantic steamers Arabic, Adriatic, Oceanic, Olympic and finally Titanic. He is known to have had the ability to keep a cool head in a crisis; to think quickly and act effectively. It was Murdoch who was duty officer on the bridge at 11:40 p.m. on 14th April 1912 when the lookout's warning of, "Iceberg right ahead" was called and it was he who responded and attempted to avoid the iceberg and then closed the watertight doors in the boiler and engine rooms. The precise details of Murdoch's death are not known but he did perish along with over 1,500 others in the icy waters of the North Atlantic on that tragic night. His body, if recovered, was never identified.
Titanic Officer. William McMaster Murdoch, the fourth child and youngest son of Samuel Murdoch. His father and grandfather were both sea captains as were four of his grandfather's brothers. He served aboard the Medic and the Runic on the Australian run. Later he was transferred to the Atlantic steamers Arabic, Adriatic, Oceanic, Olympic and finally Titanic. He is known to have had the ability to keep a cool head in a crisis; to think quickly and act effectively. It was Murdoch who was duty officer on the bridge at 11:40 p.m. on 14th April 1912 when the lookout's warning of, "Iceberg right ahead" was called and it was he who responded and attempted to avoid the iceberg and then closed the watertight doors in the boiler and engine rooms. The precise details of Murdoch's death are not known but he did perish along with over 1,500 others in the icy waters of the North Atlantic on that tragic night. His body, if recovered, was never identified.
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In Memory of
Mary McMaster
Daughter of Samuel Murdoch
Master Mariner, died 11th June 1869
Aged 4 years.
James his son died 11 November 1906
aged 39 years.
William McMaster his son
who perished in the Titanc Disaster,
15th April 1912 aged 39 years.
Jeanie Muirhead his wife
died 20th January 1914 aged 75 years.
Agnes Cumming his daughter
died 21st November 1916 aged 48 years.
The above Samuel Murdoch
died 6th March 1917 aged 73 years.
Margaret Elizabeth his daughter,
died 9th June 1973, aged 91 years.
Mary McMaster his Mother-in Law
died 16th December 1885 aged 69 years.
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