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William McMaster Murdoch, RNR (28 February 1873 [1] – 15 April 1912) was a British sailor who served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Reserve and was the first officer on the RMS Titanic. He was the officer in charge on the bridge when the Titanic collided with an iceberg, and was amongst the 1,500 people who died when the ship sank. [2]
Lightoller commanded the last bridge watch prior to the ship's collision with the iceberg, after which Murdoch relieved him at 10:00 p.m.; Lightoller conveyed to Murdoch the ship's course and the ice field that they were approaching, and that they expected to be in the vicinity of the ice somewhere around 11:00. Lightoller wished Murdoch "joy ...
Second Officer Charles Lightoller gives charge of the bridge to First Officer William McMaster Murdoch. Titanic ' s passengers begin to settle in for the night, while gamblers Hoyle and Jay Yates stay up. Suddenly, the vessel encounters an iceberg; despite Murdoch's evasive actions, she collides with it and begins to flood.
Frederick Fleet (15 October 1887 – 10 January 1965) was a British sailor, crewman and a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. [1] Fleet, along with fellow lookout Reginald Lee, was on duty when the ship struck the iceberg; Fleet first sighted the iceberg, ringing the bridge to proclaim: "Iceberg, right ahead!"
William M. Murdoch, Joseph Evans, David Alexander, and Edward Smith aboard Olympic Smith was Majestic 's captain for nine years commencing in 1895. When the Second Boer War broke out in 1899, Majestic was called upon to transport British Imperial troops to the Cape Colony .
First Officer William McMaster Murdoch. On the evening of 14 April 1912, at 11.40pm, while the Titanic was travelling at 22.5 knots, [25] an iceberg was spotted by the crow's nest watchmen Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee. The senior officer of the watch was William McMaster Murdoch; the junior officers were Joseph Boxhall and James Paul Moody.
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