Thomas Andrews: The Man Who Built The Titanic
Historic Hibernia
Thomas Andrews was thirty-nine when he met his fate onboard his greatest work, the RMS Titanic. He was a Comber man, County Down, and he had spent his working life in the one place that could have built her: Harland & Wolff, the Belfast yard that for a brief, extraordinary moment made the biggest things in the world.
Andrews learned the trade from the keel up — apprentice at sixteen, then years in the moulding loft, the joiners’ shop, the drawing office he would one day run. By his early thirties he had a hand in the largest moving objects ever made: Olympic, Titanic, and the ships that would have followed.
He sailed on the maiden voyage to watch his ship work. When she struck, he read the damage faster than the men around him and knew, before the band stopped playing, that she was lost. The hours that followed are the heart of this book — not a legend, but a man doing what he could in the time he had.
This is Andrews’ story at the precise moment it was all about to change.
€15.00
Seller Bio
Sold by: Historic HiberniaHistoric Hibernia is an independent publisher of popular Irish history.
Alan Cleary and Katherine Colthurst are working tour guides, both born and raised in Co. Kildare, who have spent years showing visitors around Ireland's castles, graveyards and ruins and telling them what actually happened there. They have given talks throughout the country, and now they write history under the Historic Hibernia label.
Alan's subject is the FitzGeralds of Kildare, and above all the 1534 rebellion of Silken Thomas and the siege of Maynooth Castle that broke it. He is also a maritime historian with a long-standing pull towards the great sea disasters, the Titanic chief among them.
Katherine studied for her master's in history at Maynooth University. Her specialist interest is the history of medicine, notably, what people relied on before there were doctors. This became the foundation for her upcoming book Before the Doctor Came.
Between them they aim to write a history that stands up to scrutiny and still reads like a story worth your evening. So far they have written Ireland's Uncrowned Kings, on the FitzGeralds and Maynooth Castle, and Alan's Thomas Andrews.
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Brandy Purdy –
I’ve been waiting years for a biography of Thomas Andrews. This book is a wonderful tribute to him and has several great photos. It gives a good overview of his background, the role he played in designing the Olympic-class ships, and his activities the night the Titanic went down. It also tells what happened to his wife and daughter after his death. Highly recommended!