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In the 1998 Titanic movie actor Victor Garber played Thomas Andrews.
An engagement ring given by the man who designed the Titanic to his fiancée is being sold by his family 107 years later.
Shipbuilder Thomas Andrews tried in vain to have enough lifeboats for all passengers and crew on board the doomed liner but was overruled.
His widow's engagement ring is going up for auction for the first time alongside a previously unpublished letter which describes his "brave" and "unselfish" actions as the ship sank.
The letter was written by a relative to Andrews' grief-stricken mother Lizzie and includes an account from stewardess Mary Sloan, who survived the disaster after Andrews put her in a lifeboat.
Pic: 20thCenturyFox
In the 1998 Titanic movie actor Victor Garber played Thomas Andrews.
An engagement ring given by the man who designed the Titanic to his fiancée is being sold by his family 107 years later.
Shipbuilder Thomas Andrews tried in vain to have enough lifeboats for all passengers and crew on board the doomed liner but was overruled.
His widow's engagement ring is going up for auction for the first time alongside a previously unpublished letter which describes his "brave" and "unselfish" actions as the ship sank.
The letter was written by a relative to Andrews' grief-stricken mother Lizzie and includes an account from stewardess Mary Sloan, who survived the disaster after Andrews put her in a lifeboat.
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