Susan Mary Auld

Susan Mary Auld (1915–2002), born Susan Denham Christie in Tynemouth, was the first woman to graduate as a naval architect from Durham University.^[1] She studied under Sir Westcott Abell and went on to be a pioneering architect for the Royal Navy. She designed battleships for the Royal Navy and the floating vessels used to land Allied troops in France on D-Day in 1944.^[2][3] After the war she worked on commercial and cargo shipbuilding and was also a correspondent for The Shipyard magazine.^[4] Her grandfather was a founder of the company that later became the Swan Hunter Group of shipyards, and her father John was company chairman for many years.

References

• Anne Pimlott Baker (January 2006). "Auld , Susan Mary (1915–2002)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76749. Retrieved 14 April 2009.