A luxury apartment in the mansion where the designer of the Titanic could be yours – if you have more than £ 450,000 left.
The flat in Ardara House in County Down, Noord -Ireland, which was divided into six apartments in 1984, has a 'breathtaking' hall and renovated kitchen.
Built in 1871, it was the youth center of Marine architect Thomas Andrews JR, who died on the Titanic when it sank after touching an iceberg in April 1912.
Andrews had gone under the deck with Captain Edward Smith to investigate the damage before calculating how long it would tolerate the ship to sink.
The designer, who was depicted by Victor Garber in the HIT 1997 film by James Cameron, helped to save passengers and crew before staring at the wall for the last time in the empty passenger hut.
The real estate that he grew up captured on the edge of the city of Comber and is approached by cast iron gates that are opened on a sweeping with trees.
The offered apartment with three bedrooms also has an elegant staircase that leads to the first floor and a 'beautiful' salon with a marble fireplace.
A luxury apartment in the mansion where the designer of the Titanic could be yours – if you have more than £ 450,000 left. Boven: Ardara House in County Down, Noord -Irland
Thomas Andrews JR died on the Titanic when it sank after touching an iceberg in April 1912. The designer, depicted by Victor Garber in James Cameron's hit 1997
The bathroom has original Victorian tiles and a white suite.
Andrews was born in the building in 1873. His father, also known as Thomas, was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
He studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution before he started an internship at Shipbuilder Harland and Wolff, of which his uncle was co -owner.
Andrews stood up to director of the company. He supervised the design and construction of the Titanic and his sister ships, the RMS Olympic and RMS Britannic.
The married father of a left on the first trip from the Titanic from Southampton to New York, together with a group of skilled men who were called the 'Garree Group'.
The 'breathtaking' hall in the apartment in Ardara House in County Down
The 'beautiful' salon with marble fireplace
The offered apartment with three bedrooms also has an elegant staircase that leads to the first floor
A corridor in the building. The country house was divided into six apartments in 1984
Their task was to look for small jobs that had to do to ensure that the ship was on the standard.
During the launch, the luxurious Titanic – the largest ship in the world – was praised as 'Onkinkel' and he was wearing some of the richest people of the planet, including ownership doctor John Jacob Astor IV.
On April 14, 1912 just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg.
The ship dropped within three hours. Andrews was one of the more than 1500 passengers and crew who died.
One of the last actions of his Andrews was to save women and children through stewardess that they brought to lifeboats.
The map of the apartment in Ardara House, where Thomas Andrews JR grew up
A study covered by books in the building that could be yours for more than £ 450,000
One of the three bedrooms in the graceful house
One of the bedrooms in the apartment that is for sale
On April 14, 1912 just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg while he was driving from Southampton to New York on his first trip. Within three o'clock the ship had slipped under the waves of the ice -cold Atlantic, in which more than 1500 people were killed
One of those he saved was Stewardess Mary Sloan.
In 2019 a letter was sent to Andrews' sad mother by another member of the family who had visited Sloan after her test was sold at an auction.
It said: 'My dearest cousin Lizzie, I came here to meet Miss Sloan – the little stewardess who was on Tommie's ship … and I sent a letter to the poor woe Nellie to tell her how Miss Sloan can talk about nobody than Tommie.
“She says he was just noble, just as he was always Grand Fellow, so non-selfish and so calm and so brave, although he knew the hopelessness of all the first.”
Together with the engagement ring that Andrews, the letter sold to his wife Helen – who was known as Nellie – before they married in 1908.
Disaster in the Atlantic: the more than 1500 their lives lost when the Titanic dropped
The RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her first trip from Southampton to New York.
More than 1500 people died when the ship, which was wearing 2,224 passengers and crew, sank under the command of Captain Edward Smith.
Some of the richest people in the world were on board, including real estate magnate John Jacob Astor IV, great -grandson of John Jacob Astor, founder of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Built by shipbuilders Harland and Wolff, established in Belfast, between 1909 and 1912, the RMS Titanic was the largest ship of its time
Millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, heir to his family's mining company, also died together with Isidor Straus, the co-owner of Macy's department store born in Germany.
At the time, the ship was the largest floating and was designed so that it was intended as 'Onkinkel'.
It had a fit on board, libraries, swimming pool and various restaurants and luxury first -class huts.
There were not enough lifeboats on board for all passengers due to outdated maritime safety regulations.
After leaving Southampton on April 10, 1912, Titanic called in Cherbourg in France and Queenstown in Ireland before he went to New York.
On April 14, 1912, four days after the intersection, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 PM.
James Moody was on a night watch when the collision took place and took the call from the Watchman and asked him, “What do you see?” The man replied, “Iceberg, death ahead.”
By 2.20, with hundreds of people who are still on board, the ship dived under the waves, and took many, including Moody, with it.
Although repeated emergency calls were broadcast and torches were launched from the decks, the first rescue ship, the RMS Carpathia, arrived almost two hours later and more than 700 people pulled out of the water.
It was only in 1985 that the wreck of the ship was discovered in two pieces on the ocean floor.
