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. Trench Point
We are grateful to Bobby Wylie, former boat designer at Campbeltown Shipyard, for this Outline Specification brochure for the Campbeltown Shipyard’s 87 Seiner. As yet we don’t have a publication date for this but the first 87″ boat, the Sheilwood A 155 (Yard 35), was built in 1977 for Don…
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…