The Coroner's Register

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0:39:50 > 0:39:57.

0:40:08 > 0:40:10This book here

0:40:10 > 0:40:13is the City Coroner's Record of Inquests for June 1911,

0:40:13 > 0:40:15which lists Robert Murphy.

0:40:15 > 0:40:18Aged 49, rivet counter,

0:40:18 > 0:40:20came to his death from shock,

0:40:20 > 0:40:24following compound fracture of the skull.

0:40:24 > 0:40:26He was working at a considerable height

0:40:26 > 0:40:27and the gangplanks have given way

0:40:27 > 0:40:30and he had fallen something like 50 foot.

0:40:30 > 0:40:32The ship, at the time,

0:40:32 > 0:40:36was known as Ship 401, and today, it's better known as Titanic.

0:40:36 > 0:40:37Six months earlier,

0:40:37 > 0:40:40another Robert Murphy died in identical circumstances

0:40:40 > 0:40:44working on the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic,

0:40:44 > 0:40:46and he too fell to his death.

0:40:46 > 0:40:49It was Mr Murphy's son, who was also called Robert.

0:40:49 > 0:40:53The Olympic and Titanic were built side by side.

0:40:53 > 0:40:58When both of them were completed, there was 14 people had died.