These accounts say an officer fired shots, though accounts differ about whether they were warning shots or whether the officer shot one or two passengers in the process. Some place the shootings at Collapsible A, the last starboard lifeboat to launch before the sinking, but other witnesses with more detailed accounts place the shootings as Collapsible C, an earlier lifeboat. While there is evidence of shootings aboard the Titanic, when and where they happened has been a matter of debate. Eyewitness accounts sometimes contradict each other. Stricken by the guilt of what he had done, Murdoch put the gun to his own head and fired, and his body fell into the ocean. The crowd pushed forward in response, pushing Tommy Ryan to the front, and Murdoch shot him, as well. As a passenger tried to get past Murdoch onto the lifeboat, Murdoch instinctively shot him.
As passengers scrambled for one of the last lifeboats, William Murdoch threatened them with a gun, saying, “ I’ll shoot any man who tried to get past me.”Ĭal, Rose’s wealthy love interest, reminded Murdoch they had a deal to get him on the boat, but Murdoch threw the money Cal had given him back in his face, telling him the money wouldn’t save either of them.
No other ship was able to save the Titanic’s passengers in time, so being left out of the lifeboats was essentially a death sentence in the icy waters. It was late in the evacuation, and there were not enough lifeboats for the people on board. In the movie, first officer William Murdoch was in charge of loading lifeboats.
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