Titanic's creator - Thomas Andrews, was born on this day in 1873.
Thomas Andrews was born in a place called Comber, in Northern Ireland on the 7th of February 1873. Andrews began his career at Harland & Wolf very early in his life: he was only 16 at the time that he joined Harland & Wolf as an apprentice. Harland & Wolf was the company who was responsible for building the Titanic, and her sister ship - the Olympic, in the early 20th century. Harland & Wolf was established just several years before Thomas Andrews was born: they became a business on the 11th of April 1861 in Belfast. Coincidentally, Titanic's first full day at sea was also on the 11th of April, but this time, it was on the 11th of April 1912, she had set sail for her maiden voyage the day before that - on the 10th of April 1912. The first time that the idea of creating the Titanic was spoke about was when Joseph Bruce Ismay and Lord Perrie (who was a shipbuilder) spoke about the proposed creation of the Titanic during a dinner in the Summer months of 1907. Joseph Bruce Ismay was the managing director and chairman of White Star Line - while Harland & Wolf would construct ships like Titanic and Olympic, White Star Line would draw up the plans and drawings for what those ships would look like.
The construction of both the Olympic and the Titanic happened at roughly the same time. Construction on the Olympic started on the 16th of December 1908 at Belfast Docks. While construction on the Titanic started at Belfast Docks just a few short months after work had started on the Olympic: the construction of the Titanic began on the 31st of March 1909. Thomas Andrews was in charge of plans for both the Olympic and the Titanic.
Thomas Andrews sailed on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, and the maiden voyage of the Olympic. The Olympic's maiden voyage was roughly a year before the Titanic's maiden voyage: the maiden voyage of the Olympic was on the 14th of June 1911. The Titanic's maiden voyage was in the following year, on the 10th of April 1912. Thomas Andrews set sail on the Titanic on her maiden voyage, however, it was a journey where he perished. Andrews was seen by other people on several different occasions on-board the Titanic on the night that the ship hit the iceberg - on the 14th of April 1912. Thomas Andrews was making his way to dinner on the 14th of April 1912 at around 6.45 PM that night. After Titanic had struck the iceberg, it was reported that Andrews was trying to encourage people to wear their life jackets. Most famously, Thomas Andrews has been seen as the man who was in the Titanic's smoking room, staring into a picture just above the fireplace. Thomas Andrews seems to have went down with the Titanic as she sank, at 2.20 AM on the 15th of April 1912. Andrews was reportedly seen in the Titanic's first-class smoking room just several minutes before the ship sank - he was reportedly seen in the first-class smoking room at 2.10 AM. Andrew died on that fateful night, but his body was never found.
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