The Guardian Angell K535 (Yard No. 091) was built at Campbeltown Shipyard in 1992 for Balfour Bain and Partners of Kirkwall, Orkney. You can view Bobby Wylie’s photos of the Guardian Angell’s launch here and of her sea trials in Campbeltown Loch here. In 1999 she was sold to M…
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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 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…
We are grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for these atmospheric photos of the yard. These would have been taken mid to late 1980’s and show that weather conditions could often be harsh at the site. Low Askomil, Campbeltown with the Campbeltown Shipyard Offices off the the right…
We are grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for this collection of photos which gives us an insight into working life at the yard. Some of the photos show the Defiant LK 371 (Yard No. 79) nearing completion so the photos must have been taken during 1987. The…
Over the years Campbeltown Shipyard Ltd took part in a number of fishing exhibitions in London, Glasgow, Anstruther, Aberdeen and Dublin. Here are a couple of photos from Bobby Wylie of the Campbeltown Shipyard Stand at an exhibition which CSL attended around 1984. Jim Smith, former Technical Manager at CLS,…
As always, we are grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for letting us share his photos – here are a couple of Fishnish, a work boat built at Campbeltown Shipyard for Golden Sea Produce, in 1989. Fishnish, a work boat built for Golden Sea Produce in 1989. Photo…
We are grateful to Douglas McNaught, former Naval architect at Campbeltown Shipyard, for sharing some of his archive with us. This archive entry is a document with the specification for a 33.5 metre well boat which was built as the Solea (Yard No. 85), for Golden Produce of Connel, Argyll…
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…