Defiance

Fleetwoods and Campbeltown Shipyard – Iain Fleetwood

22 October 2019 Blog, Information about the vessels, Lossiemouth, Shipyard Biographies, The Boats 0 Comments

Campbeltown Shipyard, Fleetwoods, Lossiemouth, Hopeman and Burghead My family owned Henry Fleetwood & Sons Ltd, mostly known as Fleetwoods, which closed just over 10 years ago as another victim of the fishing downturn and decline in shipbuilding in Scotland. I now work as a Marine Technical Superintendent in Oil and…

Bob Anderson

2 October 2019 Articles, Blog, Crew Biographies, Lossiemouth, Memorabilia, Models, Newspaper articles, Photos, The Boats 3 Comments

Campbeltown-built Aquarius INS 222 (Yard No. 23) – made for Cyril Scott of Lossiemouth in 1975. Photo courtesy of Bob Anderson. My name is Bob Anderson. I left school at 15, on 2nd January, 1980, to pursue a career in the fishing, as it was always my passion to be…