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William Murdoch And The Rms Titanic

EDM number 830 in 1997-98, proposed by Alasdair Morgan on 25/02/1998.

That this House notes with dismay the inaccuracies in the film 'Titanic' in which William McMaster Murdoch, First Officer of the 'Titanic', is portrayed as a coward who shoots and kills a passenger and then takes his own life, whereas in real life he behaved heroically in assisting passengers to reach lifeboats; and calls on the film's director James Cameron and 20th Century Fox to apologise to William Murdoch's family and to the local community in Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire, where Murdoch is rightly regarded as a hero.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alasdair Morgan25/02/1998Galloway & Upper NithsdaleScottish National PartyProposed
Margaret Ewing25/02/1998MorayScottish National PartySigned
John Swinney25/02/1998North TaysideScottish National PartySigned
Martin Smyth26/02/1998Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Ken Livingstone26/02/1998Brent EastLabourSigned
Bill Etherington26/02/1998Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie26/02/1998Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Russell02/03/1998ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cummings02/03/1998EasingtonLabourSigned
Julian Lewis03/03/1998New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Peter Bottomley03/03/1998Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Linda Perham04/03/1998Ilford NorthLabourSigned
Michael Moore04/03/1998Tweeddale, Ettrick & LauderdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Alex Salmond04/03/1998Banff & BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Ray Michie05/03/1998Argyll & ButeLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Wallace05/03/1998Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Audrey Wise05/03/1998PrestonLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle06/03/1998ChorleyLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn09/03/1998JarrowLabourSigned
John McDonnell10/03/1998Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Jim Fitzpatrick10/03/1998Poplar & Canning TownLabourSigned
Roseanna Cunningham12/03/1998PerthScottish National PartySigned
Dale Campbell-Savours18/03/1998WorkingtonLabourSigned

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