Steaming ahead with designs on ship

A DUNDEE student has been chosen to help redesign the interior of the historic Queen Mary steamship, which is being overhauled in a £2 million revamp.

Tina-Dawn Hopking, who studies interior environment design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, is creating detailed drawings of how the TS Queen Mary could look once restored.

Currently berthed at Glasgow Science Centre, TS Queen Mary was built on the Clyde in the 1930s, and after years of neglect she was saved from scrapping by the charity Friends of TS Queen Mary.

The group is now raising the cash required to restore the vessel to her former glory as part of plans to reopen her as a Scottish arts and culture destination.

Tina’s help is understood to be saving the charity up to £25,000, something she said was an honour to be a part of.

“The experience has been incredibly beneficial, giving me first-hand experience of working on a large and important project,” she said. “I became involved with the charity because I was looking for projects to work on for my finalyear thesis, and I got in contact with Friends of TS Queen Mary because ship design has always interested me.

“I am grateful to the charity for taking me on for this task and I am very pleased to be working on this culturally important project.”