The man who saved the most lives from Titanic! (Story of William Murdoch) Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video we begin telling the story of William Murdoch, the man who directly saved the most lives from Titanic.
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Yes! Thank you for putting so much respect on Murdoch's name! The amount of effort he went through in those final hours was almost superhuman --- when you actually look at the amount of boats he lowered and the amount of people he saved, it's so clear how efficient he was, and how URGENT. Murdoch was unquestionably one of the night's biggest heroes, and he's been... treated really unfairly by history. Thank you for helping to correct the record!
I must say, James Cameron's Titanic really didn't serve this man justice!
Cameron said he let his writers work on Murdoch during production. After the movie’s release, he personally paid Murdoch’s family for his portrayal in the movie.
Thank you, Sam, for teaching us about Murdock! The Titanic movie painted his image so wrong as a cowardly man when in reality he was one of the Titanics biggest heroes!
All it really came down to was how Murdoch interpreted Captain Smith's "Women and children first" order versus Lightoller. If only Murdoch had been able to be in charge of both sides, I can almost guarantee that hundreds more would've been saved since more women would've boarded the boats, especially those from Third Class who would not leave their husbands, sons, and brothers behind.
Murdock was really just much better trained for lifeboat filling and lowering. He had great experience from the many lifeboat drills he attended while being an officer on other ships before the Titanic while Lightoller had attended much less training and the lifeboat drill that he and all of the Titanic’s officers were supposed to attend before the maiden voyage was canceled so most of them were left undertrained all together. Lightoller launched the lifeboats underfilled mainly because he feared the weight of filling them to capacity would be too dangerous due to his lack of experience. It was just fortunate that Lightoller had much better skills at shifting weight with swells in water which allowed him to successfully help save the lives of the men who were on the upturned Collapsible B lifeboat.
Finally time someone made video about Murdoch. I know James Cameron was wrong in his movie. But he shunned both Murdoch and Ismay. Could we get video about Ismay maybe?
Hi Sam, William's great-grandfather was also a Sam (Samuel Lowden Murdoch) but he was a shoemaker like his father, Ebenezer. Not a ships captain. Though Ebenzer's brother, James was a ships captain. William's two uncles were ships captains, four of his grandfather James' brothers were also ships captains. Thank you for the videos.
Probably everyones first titanic officer they heard of is Murdoch. I personally first heard of Wilde and Moody but now i love lowe!
Also I have a theory that Murdoch first spotted the berg. But ignored it. And wait for the lookouts. Hitchens spotted the iceberg. And started turning to starboard. After Moody and Murdoch gave the order “hard a starboard” he started turning to the over side. When Murdoch said Hard a port, Hitchens slammed into the iceberg tearing a hole.
It wasn’t a hole .. it basically slits in the Titanic’s hull below the waterline. IF the iceberg hadn’t slit a 45 ft slit causing the steel plates to breach apart/ open in Boiler Room # 6 … she could’ve survived OR maybe just long enough for the Carpathia to arrive at Titanic’s aid for help and possibly the Californian would have been there to assist the Carpathia.
thank you, Sam! this is really excellent! amazing photos and you are a wonderful storyteller! if 1st Officer Murdoch were here, I would thank him for his service and dedication that saved so many lives that night!
The lousy film that emptied it's bowels over Mr Murdoch. Hate that bloody film.
Sam can you please explain the duties of a first officer vs a chief officer or say a 2nd officer?
Are there any descendants of his still living? They must be immensely proud! Actually, that'd be a fascinating topic: descendents of the Titanic.
No descendants, as William McMaster Murdoch didn't have children. But he has many living relatives. William is my first cousin, two generations removed. (His Aunt Anderina Murdoch was my great grandmother). Yes, I'm proud of him.
@@koalastralia your cousin was a true hero! I’m sorry about how rumours and the media had portrayed him in such a negative way. It must have been very hard.
@@jomac841 Thank you for your kind words about William. I watched James Cameron's extraordinary film in 1997. Though I knew it was an entertaining fictionalized 'Hollywood' film (and not a documentary), I was still horrified when James damaged William's reputation. I'm glad William's nephew, Samuel Scott Murdoch called James out on his carelessness. Anyway.. just found the old 'A Night to Remember | The Titanic Disaster in Full and HD Color (1958)' on TH-cam.
@@koalastralia you’re very welcome!
wonder if he could become a captain on titanic if she didnt sink
His father, two uncles, grandfather, and 4 great-uncles were ship's captains. If not the Titanic, definitely a captain on another ship.
@@koalastralia Yeah, definitely another ship. The only captains the Titanic ever had were Herbert Haddock and Edward Smith.
Waz up Sam, enjoyed watching this earlier on my break and am watching it again before bed
Was wondering if you’d be willing to do anymore videos on Great Lakes disasters? Also have you ever tried the “Edmund Fitzgerald” by Great Lakes Brewing Company?
Hello Sam!! Thank you so much for another Titanic video!! It's always awesome to learn something new about the Titanic :)
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Another great video, Sam and great facts about Murdoch too! I'm wondering if there is a copy of his testimony of the Olympic and Hawke collision? Would love to read it 🙂
I'm also interested.
So I’ve done a lot of research on Murdoch, and there is a copy of the testimony from the Hawke inquiry but it’s in the British archives and has not been digitized, at least as far as I’ve been able to find. Might have something to do with it being a naval ship and a partially military focused inquiry
Captain Smith said "Women and children in and lower away" not "women and children first", at least according to survivors.
so why did the movie make him a VILLAIN?
Another amazing video! Keep them coming! I didn't know Murdoch served on 3 out of the 4 big four ships.
Grate video man good work
Great video
Sam I absolutely love your videos and I love the fact you pronounce Celtic as Sell-tik but the correct pronunciation is actually Kell-tik💚
First? Love your content sam
I noticed my comment was taken down, I just said I enjoyed part 1 and am looking for part 2 soon. 😮💨
it was taken down cause I deleted that last video and reuploaded. Thanks again!
Love your vids and channel i subscribed
Sam when you first said he served on White Star’s SS Runic I got all excited at the connection as the white star livestock steam freighter SS Runic was the ship that became the SS Imo…yes, that Imo, the one that hit the Mont-Blanc’ causing the Halifax explosion! However it turns out the Runic Murdoch served on was a later built passenger liner, in fact she was pretty much new in 1900 when he started aboard her.
I like the new intro Sam, it just fits Samuel Pence.
Also, can you do stories of the Carpathia and Californian crew members
Such as Horace Dean, James Bisset, George Stewart and Herbert Stone; once you gain enough information (which may not be found on OASoG)
I thought Officer Lightoller also served on the Olympic with them
9 years ago, after I went to bed, I saw through my bedroom window, which faced an unlighted area, a white orb the size of a human fist. It appeared on the right side of my window, less than 2 feet away from it, and flew across to the left side and out of view in the span of 5 seconds. Two seconds later it flew back and stared at me for 2 seconds before flying off again.
This happened to me too. Especially after 14 pints !!!!!!!
@@stevenwade7466 I haven't got your iron constitution. Happens to me after ten.
Ball lightning.
Your storys are great
A Titanic video before bed
Awesome 👏
what's with the reupload
There was small mistake in the original one.
Can you do a video on the SS Carl D. Bradley or SS Daniel J. Morrell? They were both Great Lakes freighters that broke in half and sank in November storms. I live in Michigan and I am fascinated with the Edmund Fitzgerald and there are many more Great Lakes stories to tell.
Kinda want to hear the story of the BIG 4 now.
I’m READY for Episode 2 Sam .. getting some popcorn 🍿 and a soda 🥤 lol 😂
very informative video! I really enjoyed it ;)
Dose anyone know the ss celtic is?
Another ship built by the White Star Line.
Such effort you put into all your videos!! Great job!!
Hey, Sam! After telling the story of William Murdoch I suggest you to tell the story of these White Star Line’s Big Four ships. I’m interested now after watching this video. Great work! Your videos are awesome!
Re-upload?
There was a small mistake on the original one.
Nice video Sam!!!
Amazing content
This is a really good video good job!
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Idea for the theme song for the anime! Dragonforce’s metal cover of “my heart will go on”
Link to the song th-cam.com/video/Imc7IRszGiM/w-d-xo.html
I like Titanic,.but not enough to learn about people who served on it. Atleast that's what I thought....your energy, enthusiasm and passion for the Titanic easily rubs off and you do it all in a very entertaining way! I thoroughly am enjoying your channel! Thank You!!
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Sam when you first said he served on White Star’s SS Runic I got all excited at the connection as the white star livestock steam freighter SS Runic was the ship that became the SS Imo…yes, that Imo, the one that hit the Mont-Blanc’ causing the Halifax explosion! However it turns out the Runic Murdoch served on was a later built passenger liner, in fact she was pretty much new in 1900 when he started aboard her.
This has definitely become my favourite channel on TH-cam.
Thank you Sam
The Big Four quartet really need their own video at some point.
I once saw a plan depicting the activity about the lifeboats in that night and was especially impressed by the performance of loading the lifeboats in the aft starboard section of the ship (on Murdoch's side). Here there were one quarter (4 out of 16) of the large lifeboats, and nearly 100 percent of their places were used for rescuing passengers (I think two lifeboats were loaded with the maximum of 65 persons and one had only about 60, but another had 70, which compensated for this). Had all four quarters been loaded so efficiently, about 1100 or half of the people could have survived, as opposed to less than a third.
Just discovered your channel. Sweet vids!
3:02 maybe an idea for a series could be a profile of the big four one ship per episode, these 4 ships and the progression and improvement of each set the business model of the white star line (size, comfort and cost efficiency) that would lead to the Olympic class, essentially take all the things that worked on the Celtic, Baltic, Cedric and Adriatic and take them to a greater scale, they were by far the most profitable ships that the white star line and Harland and Wolff ever built.
Rms Celtic my favorite ship what a big powerful ship of her time. I would love it to be covered.
If officer lightoller loaded the boats the way Murdoch did it is more than likely many more lives could have been saved that fateful night early morning of April 14/15th 1912
in the book I have about the engineering Crew on the Titanic it says that they put out the fires in the boilers as she flooded
If he was alive today and was a rapper his name could be Willy Murder.
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Dude....
Love the new emblem and your content!
Do you have the Lego titanic kit?
thanks for this tribute
So glad you’re covering Murdoch, he’s by far my favorite officer from the Titanic. As for what he did during the break before Olympic went back out, I believe he did testify at the inquiry, I have heard that but I also know that unlike the Titanic and Lusitania inquiries, the Olympic collision inquiry testimony is rather hard to get ahold of. I believe it’s in the British archives and has not been digitized, but don’t quote me on that.
What about officer Charles lightoller? Not only did he get many women and children off the titanic but after she sank he was instrumental with keeping the over turned collapsible lifeboat stable with the men who were on top staying balanced
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Murdoch was NOT a hero. Calling him a hero is like calling someone who directly caused a road accident a hero because he rescued someone from the burning car he hit.
The available evidence is that Murdoch committed suicide after helping with lifeboat launching. It is probable he did that because when the iceberg was sighted, he gave an order intended to steer the ship around the iceberg, but was a completely wrong order to do so. He would have realised that he, by giving an incorrect order, caused the unnecessary death of most of Titanic's passengers and crew.
Murdoch was in command of Titanic at the time of the accident. He shouldn't have been proceeding at normal cruise speed in a dark night in a known field of icebergs anyway. Titanic's manoeverability was much lower than other ships and he should have reduced speed.
However, since this may be covered or counter explained in Historic Travels subsequent videos on Murdoch, I won't explain it in detail just yet.
What suicide method did he use?
do you believe that the olympic and titantic were switched? and olympic was really the titantic on the nighty of the sinking?
Of course he doesn’t. No one who has done a decent amount of research on Titanic and her sisters believes that nonsense.
That switch theory is wrong! The only thing the Titanic and Olympic had switched were their original captains and if those two ships themselves were to have been switched, there’s no way they could’ve gotten away with it without everyone noticing. They were not 100% identical and the Olympic was in such a rush to get back into service after her collision with the HMS Hawke that they definitely didn’t have the time to do what they would’ve needed to do in order to completely disguise it as the Titanic.
Saved lives !!!!!!!! He was the one in charge of the bridge,when she hit the iceberg . Apparently took his time answering the phone on the bridge,costing vital seconds . Also why did he allegedly shoot himself ? GUILT.
Perhaps you misunderstood the word 'allegedly.' Of what do you think Murdoch was guilty?
@@dovetonsturdee7033 Hitchens said murdoch was asleep & he had to be woken up to answer the telephone . This cost vital seconds which could of meant the ship avoiding the iceberg altogether
@@stevenwade7466 Murdoch was senior watchkeeping officer on Titanic's Bridge. Of course he was not asleep.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 So Hitchens lied then ? Many times people dont do the job by the book , having said that I guess we will never know the total truth of what happened that night !!!!!!!
@@stevenwade7466 Well, if Hitchens said that, then yes he did lie.
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