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.
Appendix may refer to: In documents: Addendum, an addition required to be made to a document by its author subsequent to its printing or publication Bibliography, a systematic list of books and other works Index (publishing), a list of words or phrases with pointers to where related material can be found in a document In anatomy: Appendix (anatomy) ...