In two films about the Titanic, Murdoch was portrayed shooting passengers and himself during the sinking; this was based on a number of eyewitness testimonies of a shooting/suicide by an officer during the launching of the last lifeboat. It is possible that Murdoch was the officer.
In general, to append is to join or add on to the end of something. For example, an appendix is a section appended (added to the end) of a document. In computer programming, append is the name of a procedure for concatenating (linked) lists or arrays in some high-level programming languages.
[with object] Add (something) to the end of a written document. âthe results of the survey are appended to this chapterâ. âThose who appended their signatures merely to appear to be non-racial or fair in dealing with others, do so to their peril.â. âThat post is so long that we're separately setting out this update rather than appending it to that post.â.