Life
1873-1912; marine engineer and master shipbuilder; b. Comber, Co. Down, a nephew of Lord Pirrie (chairman of Harland and Wolff, Belfast); began work at the shipyard at 16; read neither books nor newspapers, regarding them as a waste of time and prefering to study drawing, applied mechanics and naval architecture; became managing director of shipyard in 1907, aged 34; chief designer of the Titanic; went down with the ship; commemorated by a hall in Comber.
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Criticism
He is the subject of a novel by Shan
Bullock, Thomas Andrews: Shipbuilder (1912); see also Desmond Rainey & Laura Spence, A Chronicle of Comber, The Town of Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder 1873-1912 (Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation 2011). DIB
DUB
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