Extract from Cunard Release Date April 4, 1967"Dan Wallace, Cunard's naval architect was, like the ship, cradled on Clydebank. He is the fifth in a line of Scots who have served Cunard in the post of naval architect. He was apprenticed as a draughtsman in John Brown's yard, where the Q4 is being built, in 1931.
The first ship on which he worked was the first of the Cunard Queens, Queen Mary.
Mr Wallace left John Brown's in 1951 when ship manager and joined The Cunard Steam-Ship Company Limited as assistant naval architect. He was appointed naval architect on April 1, 1964, taking over from the chief naval architect, Mr Bob Wood at the end of that year.
He was aboard both Queen liners when they were launched. He was in the Queen Mary's boiler room when she slid down the launching ways at Clydebank and was on the Queen Elizabeth's promenade deck at her launching.
Dan Wallace's work on the Q4 virtually began in 1954 when Cunard were discussing proposals for an 80,000-ton Q3 liner which was to be the Queen Mary's successor. Although the proposals for a Q3 were abandoned, the work which was done in the naval architect's department under Mr Wood and Mr Wallace, especially in studies on weight saving in the ship, proved invaluable when it was decided to go ahead with a 58,000-ton Q4.
Mr Wallace was responsible with Mr Wood, for the conversion of the Cunarders Carmania and Franconia into cruise ships, and together they also designed the highly successful Media class of cargo ships."
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