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; he is the subject of a novel by Shan
Bullock, Thomas Andrews: Shipbuilder (1912). DIB
DUB
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