The Coroner's Register A History of the Titanic in 30 Pieces

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This book here

is the City Coroner's Record of Inquests for June 1911,

which lists Robert Murphy.

Aged 49, rivet counter,

came to his death from shock,

following compound fracture of the skull.

He was working at a considerable height

and the gangplanks have given way

and he had fallen something like 50 foot.

The ship, at the time,

was known as Ship 401, and today, it's better known as Titanic.

Six months earlier,

another Robert Murphy died in identical circumstances

working on the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic,

and he too fell to his death.

It was Mr Murphy's son, who was also called Robert.

The Olympic and Titanic were built side by side.

When both of them were completed, there was 14 people had died.