Welcome to Dalbeattie Museum

Winners Of

The Queens Award For Voluntary Services 2009

Exciting Year Ahead!

IT WILL BE 100 YEARS ON APRIL 14TH / 15TH 2012 SINCE THE WHITE STAR LINER “TITANIC” SANK BENEATH THE WAVES OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE TO NEW YORK.

ON BOARD THE BRIDGE THAT FATEFUL NIGHT WAS CAPTAIN WILLIAM McMASTER MURDOCH – A NATIVE OF DALBEATTIE. CAPTAIN MURDOCH WAS BORN INTO A SEAFARING FAMILY AND SPENT HIS CHILDHOOD IN DALBEATTIE AND WAS ALSO WHERE HE WAS EDUCATED.

HE LEFT THE TOWN FOR A LIFE ON THE HIGH SEAS WHERE HE EVENTUALLY JOINED THE WHITE STAR LINE AND WORKED HIS WAY UP THROUGH THE RANKS UNTIL BECOMING FIRST OFFICER ABOARD THE TITANIC.

CAPTAIN MURDOCH PERISHED THAT NIGHT AND HIS BODY NEVER RECOVERED BUT IN DALBEATTIE HE IS OUR “LOCAL HERO”

DALBEATTIE MUSEUM IS PUTTING ON A MAJOR EXHIBITION OF ARTIFACTS AND PICTURES OF ALL THINGS RELATING TO THE TITANIC AND ESPECIALLY CAPTAIN MURDOCH

ON DISPLAY WILL BE A REPRODUCTION COPY OF “THE HEART OF THE OCEAN” PENDANT AS WORE BY KATE WINSLET IN THE FILM “TITANIC”

ALSO A REPRODUCTION COPY OF THE MEDAL THAT WAS GIVEN TO THE CREW OF “THE CARPATHIA” BY THE RICH RESCUED PASSENGERS.

PICTURES, PHOTOGRAPHS, MODELS OF THE TITANIC, AND MUCH MORE WILL BE ON DISPLAY

OVER THE WEEKEND OF APRIL 14TH / 15TH 2012 THE MUSEUM WILL BE HOSTING A SPECIAL “TITANIC WEEKEND”, WHEN ALL THE STAFF OF THE MUSEUM WILL BE DRESSED IN PERIOD COSTUME AND WINE AND NIBBLES WILL BE SERVED LOOK OUT FOR MORE DETAILS NEARER THE TIME.

OVER THE SAME WEEKEND THE WIGTOWNSHIRE RADIO AMATEUR CLUB ALONG WITH DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY RAYNET GROUP WILL BE HOLDING A SPECIAL EVENTS RADIO STATION AND TRANSMIITING ON A SPECIAL CALLSIGN AROUND THE WORLD.