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|url=https://roderickchisholm.wordpress.com/notes/ |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=www.roderickchisholm.wordpress.com |date=13 November 2013 |language=en-GB}}</ref> He was selected as one amidst nine other Harland & Wolff employees to witness the smooth operation of ''Titanic''{{'s}} maiden voyage, in what was known as the "[[Guarantee Group]]", a team dedicated towards appointing those who have esteemed themselves in merit throughout the vessels' own development.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harland & Wolff: Titanic Guarantee Group |url=https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-guarantee-group/ |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=www.encyclopedia-titanica.org |language=en-GB}}</ref>
Throughout the voyage on ''Titanic'', he participated in regular inspection of her mechanisms as well as functions, routinely writing notes regarding their overall status before disclosing them with Andrews. Should any anomalies have been discovered during the journey, they were swiftly recorded within the ships' entries in the logbook. She then would have
On the night of 14 April 1912, the ''Titanic'' fatally struck an iceberg before sinking two hours and forty-minutes later; Chisholm never survived.<ref>''Belfast Weekly News'', 25 April 1912, The Queen's Island Representatives.</ref> His body, if recovered, was never identified.<ref>''Larne Times'', 27 April 1912, Queen's Island, a day of mourning.</ref> His assets amounted to about 140 pounds, of which his widow became the beneficiary, worth just over £20,000 in modern terms, on 10 June 1912.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roderick Chisholm - Member of the Harland & Wolff Guarantee Group |url=https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/roderick-chisholm.html |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=encyclopedia-titanica.org |date=31 October 1999 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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