We are very grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for these photographs of the Sunbeam INS 68 (Yard No. 77). She was built for W. S. Smith & Partners, Lossiemouth in 1987. She was decommissioned in 2002. Sunbeam INS 68 (Yard No. 77) at the time of her…
We are grateful to Leslie Campbell, who runs the A Day in the Life of Kilkeel Harbour Facebook group (worth a look!), for the following information on the history of the Campbeltown Alert FR 147 (Yard No. 19) – 1974. We’re not sure who has taken the photographs that Leslie…
We are very grateful to Ronnie Young of Sandwick, Shetland, for sharing his memorabilia with us. We will be publishing his collected material about Campbeltown-built boats in various entries here on the online archive. In this entry we are publishing three photos of the signing of the contract for the…
We are very grateful to Darren Purves, from the Isle of Man, for these very recent photos of two veteran Campbeltown-built boats: Peter M PL 25, built as Steadfast LH 90 (Yard No. 4) in 1970 and Chelaris MT 23 which was built as Jacquelyn Stuart LH 159 (yard No….
We are very grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for these photos of the Campbeltown-built Arkh Angell K 616 (Yard No. 88). The Arkh Angell which was built in 1990 for Kenneth Bain, Kirkwall, Orkney. As far as we are aware she is still fishing. If you know…
We are very grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for this collection of photos of the Campbeltown-built Guardian Angell K 535 (Yard No. 91) which was launched in 1992. She was built for Balfour Bain & Partners, Kirkwall, Orkney. These photos were taken at the time of her…
We are very grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for this collection of photos of the Campbeltown-built Guardian Angell K 535 (Yard No. 91) which was launched in 1992. She was built for Balfour Bain & Partners, Kirkwall, Orkney. These photos were taken at the time of her…
Yvonne’s a smasher. This is an article published in the Campbeltown Courier on 4th November, 1977, is about the launch of the Challenger II PD 212 (Yard. No. 37), an 85 foot trawler which was commissioned for Andrew Strachan and Bill Innes of Peterhead. The boat was launched by Yvonne Strachan,…
We are very grateful to Ronnie McNally, former Foreman Loftsman, at Campbeltown Shipyard for these photos. Ronnie put this collection together of around 100 photos of boats that were built at the yard. They were displayed on the wall of the loft at the yard during the time that Ronnie…
We are grateful to Finlay Oman for sharing his collection of photos of Campbeltown-built boats which he has taken during his travels with work around Scotland. I was born in Glasgow, but my father was the son of a Carradale fishermen, with uncles on both sides of the family being…
