We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this article, “New Campbeltown Design Unveiled’, published in Fishing News on 26th April, 1991. This features the design for George Moodie & Sons’ boat, the Shemarah II – Yard No. 97. New Campbeltown Design Unveiled – Fishing News, 26th April, 1991….
We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland this article, ‘Bigger ‘Adonis’ Returns to Sea’, published in Fishing News on 2nd September, 1988 – report by James Nicholson. This article relates to alternations made to the Campbeltown-built Adonis LK 172 (Yard No. 70, 1985) at the Malakoff Yard in Shetland. …
We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this article, ‘Campbeltown Order!’, published in Fishing News on 11th November 1994. The report is by Jim Mair and talks about the Campbeltown-built Shemarah II LH 65 (Yard No. 97) which was built for George Moodie & Sons of Longniddry in…
We are very grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this article from Fishing News, published on 23rd December, 1988. Shetland’s New ‘Endeavour’, by James Nicolson, is feature about the Endeavour LK 173 (Yard No. 83) which was built in 1988 at Campbeltown Shipyard for Brian Morrison and Partners of…
Campbeltown shows the Way – ‘ARKH ANGELL’: This article, written by Hugh Allen and published on the 4th January 1991 in Fishing News, comes to us courtesy of Ronnie Young of Shetland. The Arkh Angell K616 (Yard No. 88) was built at Campbeltown Shipyard in 1990 for Kenny Bain of…
We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this article published in Fishing News on 29th September, 1989. The article talks about how an order from brothers Peter and Stephen Bruce, of Peterhead, saved the 83-strong workforce at the yard from the threat of redundancy. The Bruces’ boat, the…
We are very grateful to Ronnie Young for this article about the Campbeltown-built Maggie M MBE SH 170 (Yard No 81) which was written by Hugh Allen and published in Fishing News on 15th April, 1988. The Maggie M MBE was built for Scarborough Skipper, Bob Mainprize, and was named…
We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this article about the Campbeltown-built Steadfast IV FR 433 (Yard No. 100). This was published in Fishing News on 17th December, 1997. Steadfast IV was built for Alex West, Steadfast Fishing Company, Fraserburgh in 1996. She was the last fishing vessel…
We are very grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this article about the Campbeltown-built Maranatha II UL 33 (Yard No. 84), which was published in Fishing News on 17th March, 1989. The Maranatha II was built for the Pitcairn Fishing Company (Niven Ogg and Neil Rumbles), Lochinver. The Maranatha…
We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this article about the Campbeltown-built ‘Be Ready’ LK 377 (Yard No. 69). We have already published a photocopy of this article from Bobby Wylie but here we can view a scan of the original article, published on 20th March, 1987. You…
