Stephen Payne | Titanic Revisited: 1912-2014

In April 1912, Titanic, the largest ship in the world was lost on her maiden voyage. A ship of legends, many myths have grown up surrounding the ship. Queen Mary 2 naval architect, Stephen Payne, presents a lecture to set the record straight and set the ship in the right historical context.

Special Lecture Series: Peachman Lecture
Sponsoring Department: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
http://name.engin.umich.edu

Speaker Bio: Stephen went to Southampton University to study Ship Science (Naval Architecture) where he graduated with an Honours Degree in June 1984. In January 1985 Stephen joined the London based firm of Technical Marine Planning Ltd., a small consultancy that was engaged by Carnival Cruise Lines in the design and construction supervision of the new Carnival cruise ships Holiday, Jubilee and Celebration. Since 1995 TMP has been fully integrated into Carnival Corporation as the newbuild department. Stephen has subsequently worked on all the classes of ships built for Carnival including the eight ship Fantasy class and the 100,000 gross ton Carnival Destiny series. As Carnival has acquired other brands Stephen has been busy with projects for each of them and he was appointed Project Manager for the design and building of the Holland America Line flagship Rotterdam (VI) 1997.

With the purchase of Cunard in 1998 Stephen was appointed chief designer of Project Queen Mary and subsequently became Director of Project Management for the construction of the ship that became Queen Mary 2. From 2004-2010 he was Vice President Chief Naval Architect of Carnival Corporate Shipbuilding based in Southampton. He is now Principal Consultant of PFJ-Maritime Consulting Ltd, an organisation providing consultancy services to the marine industry.

A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects Stephen was President of this Institution from 2007-2010. He is a Chartered Engineer and was awarded the OBE in 2004 for Services to Shipping. He has also been awarded the Merchant Navy Medal in and is a Freeman of the City of London. In January 2006 The Royal Academy of Engineering awarded him with the Academy's first Special Achievement Award in recognition of the success of Queen Mary 2 and in 2008 he was made a Fellow of this prestigious institution. In 2011 the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (USA) awarded Stephen their most prestigious award, the Admiral Gerry Land Medal. In 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Southampton. Stephen's other interests include 20th Century maritime history, steam trains and airships.
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