Dalbeattie William McMaster Murdoch memorial photographed 2020
The inscription reads:
THIS TABLET
IS ERECTED
TO COMMEMORATE THE HEROISM
DISPLAYED BY
LIEUT. WILLIAM Mc MASTER MURDOCH. R.N.R.
A NATIVE OF DALBEATTIE
WHEN ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE -THE
R. M. S. TITANIC
-OF WHICH HE WAS FIRST OFFICER
COLLIDED WITH AN ICEBERG AND SANK
AND 815 OF HER PASSENGER, AND 688 OF HER CREW
INCLUDING LIEUTENANT MURDOCH PERISHED
14th AND 15th APRIL 1912
A MEMORIAL PRIZE IS ALSO TO BE COMPETED FOR
ANNUALLY IN DALBEATTIE PUBLIC SCHOOL
WHERE LIEUTENANT MURDOCH WAS EDUCATED
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