Remembering Raye Jean Montague

Raye J. Montague, the name often used during her career, is not your average engineer. She has a name that has bewildered many male interviewers who thought that any applicant in the 1950s with the first name Raye had to be a man.

Her most notable accomplishment caught the attention of her superiors when she was credited with completing a rough draft of the SSGF Escot, the first Navy ship created by computer. Normally the task of designing a ship takes two years just to complete the rough draft by hand...... She revolutionized the ship design process by producing the first computerized ship model plan - and in record time - 18 hours and 26 minutes.