Thanks to Jim Smith, former Technical Manager at CSL for the following information on George McGregor a draughtsman who worked at the yard. When I arrived at the yard in 1973, George McGregor was probably in his mid to late fifties. I think he was there from 1968 and he…
Shipyard Biographies
We are grateful to Carolyn Randall for the following piece. Her father, Douglas McNaught was a key figure in the drawing office at Campbeltown Shipyard Ltd. My Memories: It was always exciting going to Dad’s office. Graeme, my brother and I had to climb steep stairs to reach it which…
We are very grateful to Ian McCallum for this piece about his time working at Campbeltown Shipyard. As you will see from the photos, Ian didn’t just work at the shipyard, he also played the pipes at the launches. Ian McCallum – far right: Fidelis II takes to the sea…
In Aug 1980 I joined the training centre at Snipefield in Campbeltown and a year later I started my 2nd year apprenticeship at Campbeltown Shipyard. On arrival there it was a relief to be away from the rigmarole of general schooling and exams. The yard was so noisy with metal…
I started my apprenticeship in 1978, prior to that I was a bit lost as to what to do with myself – I did think about Glasgow School of Art. Pete Stimpson, who was the foreman, stuck us in a corner with a propane burner and a welding set for…
A WEE TOON FIRST: An article published in the Campbeltown Courier on 20th June, 1980, about apprenticeships at Campbeltown Shipyard. Leslie Howarth, former Managing Director at Campbeltown Shipyard, estimates that there would have been around 130 apprenticeships served at the yard between 1970 and 1990. We haven’t been able to…
At the beginning of the project I started making a list of names of employees who had worked at Campbeltown Shipyard during its lifespan at Trench Point, based on information we gathered from you, on the Facebook page. I’m grateful to Billy McLean who took the printed list away and…
We’d like to thank Charlie Colville of P6, Dalintober Primary School, and his mum, Emily, for sharing Charlie’s homework project about Campbeltown Shipyard. It’s great to see how the Campbeltown children are discovering so much about their local heritage, finding relatives who worked at the yard and learning from those…
It’s great to see that the children from P6, Dalintober Primary School, Campbeltown Shipyard, have been carrying out research into the boats built at Campbeltown and have been interviewing the people who worked at the Yard – here are a few examples of their work sent in to us by…
It was early in May 1977, in the middle of my final exams, and four weeks away from leaving school, when a notice was sent out to all who were interested, that Trevor Perkins, Manager of Campbeltown Shipyard, was going to be in the school on a recruitment drive. Moira…