We are grateful to Sam Henderson, co-author of the book, Fishing Boats of Campbeltown Shipyard, for these photos of the buildings at Campbeltown Shipyard Ltd, which were taken after the yard closed in 1998. We’ve also added Art Bowbeer’s cutaway drawings which were published in Campbeltown Shipyard: A New Dimension…
Campbeltown Shipyard – Photo courtesy of Bobby Wylie. Hi Folks, Stuart Mack of McDuffs Shipyard Ltd, who is based at the McDuff’s shipyard in Buckie, has been in touch to say they that have an archive of Campbeltown Shipyard drawings and calculations. I, for one, was very excited to hear…
In one picture… the men and women who filled Campbeltown Loch with Success A MOTLEY BUNCH of workers from the most unlikely of backgrounds have created a success story on the shores of Campbeltown Loch. They are former miners, general handymen, tradesmen and housewives without any tradition of shipbuilding. We…
Hi Folks – here we have a selection of photos from Sandy Cooper of Orkney, who was a crew member on the Campbeltown-built Arkh Angell K616 (Yard No. 88), for almost a decade. In my opinion the Arkh Angell was an awesome fishing machine, well fitted out, 30 odd feet…
Sandy Cooper, aged 19, crewman on the Arkh Angell K 616 (Yard No. 88), at the Arkh’s launch at Campbeltown Shipyard in 1990. Photo Courtesy of Sandy Cooper. I was aboard the Campbeltown built, fully Sheltered 87 footer Arkh from her launching in November 1990 until December 1998. I started…
This brochure for Campbeltown Ship Yard came to us via Bobby Wylie, a former boat designer at the yard. We are very grateful to him for this great resource, showing us specifications for all the Campbeltown boats available at the time, from the 26.9 metre stern trawler to the highly…
Billy “Twin” Morran worked as a welder at Campbeltown Shipyard. Photo courtesy of Jan Nimmo Billy Morran, locally known to Campbeltown folks as “Billy Twin”, served a three years apprenticeship, which he started in 1968, at Binder’s Engineering in Kinloch Road, Campbeltown, and then he served a further year in…
Nowadays it’s hard to imagine that Trench Point in Campbeltown was home to a thriving shipbuilding industry that dates from 1712. The last yard on the site was Campbeltown Shipyard Ltd, which over the span of its 27 year lifetime employed more than 250 people who, as a team, built…
The following images are from a leaflet that former Managing Director of Campbeltown Shipyard, Leslie Howarth, gave us to scan for the online archive. The text and images were originally published in “SHIP and BOAT” in November, 1968. The article describes the methods of construction, the costs involved and discusses…
Jim Smith, who worked in the drawing office at Campbeltown Shipyard, has sent in theses scans of extracts from an article written by James McBeth for the Daily Record, Friday, February 1987. The article focuses the building of the Sunbeam INS 68 (Yard No. 77) which as commissioned by skipper,…
