ABSTRACT
James Foggo Allan was educated at the Dumbarton Academy and at Glasgow University, and he served an apprenticeship with William Denny and Bros., Ltd, the Dumbarton shipbuilders. He held the Sir William White Research Scholarship of Institution of Naval Architects during 1927 to 1929. In 1948 he received the D.Sc. degree of Glasgow University for his pioneering work in developing ship roll stabilizers, now a familiar feature of most passenger ships. From 1926 to 1948, Allan was on the staff of the ship model experiment tank, Dumbarton, finally as its head. In 1948, he was appointed super-intendent of the Ship Division of the National Physical Laboratory NPL. Since then he had considerably widened its range of activities and the new NPL Ship Hydrodynamics Laboratory in Feltham was planned.
