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retired and did not have anything more to do with shipbuilding. Thomas Andrews, Pirrie's nephew, was then made master ship builder. Contemporary documentaries claimed Carlisle retired in anger due to Pirrie not accepting his lifeboat recommendations, if his recommendations were accepted the overall death toll of the
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While working on the liners, Carlisle had some minor disputes with Lord Pirrie over the number of lifeboats required for a vessel of this size. Pirrie, the chairman of Harland and Wolff, was satisfied that the number of lifeboats supplied more than met the board of trade regulations. Carlisle then
74:. He studied at his father's school until he left at 16 to join the shipyard Harland and Wolff, starting out as an apprentice. It was during this period that he met Pirrie, who would later marry his sister Margaret in 1879. 117:
system for the lifeboats. After 40 years at Harland and Wolff, Carlisle retired in 1910, becoming a shareholder in the Welin Davit & Engineering Company Ltd, the company that made the davits.
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In 1884 he married Edith Wooster, an American 12 years his junior. The marriage produced a son and two daughters.
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Carlisle was one of the men who designed the three ships of the
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Testimony of Alexander Carlisle - Titanic Inquiry Project
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Carlisle's Retirement – Separating fact from fiction
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PC
Viscount Pirrie
Olympic-class
ocean liners
Harland and Wolff
Privy Councillor
Ballymena
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Olympic class
Olympic
Titanic
Britannic
davits
Privy Council of Ireland
Edward VII
Thomas Andrews (shipbuilder)
Alexander Carlisle Obituary


"Who really designed Titanic?"
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"Testimony of Alexander Carlisle"
Carlisle's Retirement – Separating fact from fiction
Encyclopedia Titanica
Testimony of Alexander Carlisle - Titanic Inquiry Project
Video
YouTube
Colourpoint Books
ISBN

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