McLean, MacDonald Murdoch



The name is complicated, for a variety of reasons explains Ron J Hoffman. The letter from Lady Hood, widow of the Admiral, was sent to Mrs MacDonald as his widow, and her first pension notification in November 1916 referred to him as Murdo MacDonald (although born on the ship's books as McLean - the story in the local Wick paper referring to him as a well known local fisherman, has him as Murdo McLean so that seems to be how he was known at home, at least by then, and in later pension correspondence. His parents were a McDonald and a McLean.) Lady Hood appears to have written her comforting words about the speedy end of the ship, drawn from her meeting with Commander Dannreuther, the senior surviving officer of the ship, perhaps to the next of kin of all those lost. Even with help typing the letters this will have been a major task, but maybe was of help to her and her daughters, who seem to have helped, as well as to those to whom she wrote.


 * 1) HMS Invincible Crew List (Photographs)
 * 2) HMS Invincible Crew List (updated in Real-time)