A postwar career across British naval architecture

What was Dr. Clarke's father's career in naval architecture?

It began with Cammell Laird and expanded through Lloyd's Register, naval construction, surveying, and a long-running consultancy.

Dr. Clarke says his father entered naval architecture soon after the Second World War through an apprenticeship at Cammell Laird. He later worked with Lloyd's Register, naval constructors, and several firms before establishing an independent surveying and naval-architecture consultancy. The career extended from youth into his early eighties and crossed both shipbuilding and inspection work. Its reach is summed up by the claim that most Royal Navy gray hulls, and many vessels fitted with anechoic tiles, involved him in some capacity.