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Charles E Sparrow
Australian, 1906 - 2004
In the early 1920s Charles accepted a job as shipwright at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard. His apprenticeship finished in 1928 and Charles worked at different jobs until 1931 when he was unemployed at the time Sil Rohu asked him to design the VJ.
In 1936 Sil Rohu wrote and asked Charles to design the Vaucluse Senior. In 1937 Charles returned from Papua New Guinea, where he had worked from 1933, to Australia to work as a ship’s draughtsman in the Navy base at Garden Island in Sydney.
At the beginning of World War II Charles moved to Brisbane to become Naval Overseer at the Evans Deakin Shipyard which constructed corvettes and frigates and repaired war damaged ships. After WWII Charles returned to Garden Island in the position of Chief Draughtsman and Senior Naval Architect in change of the drawing office.
Charles died in 2004 aged nearly 98.
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