We are very grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for this collection of photos of the Campbeltown-built Guardian Angell K 535 (Yard No. 91) which was launched in 1992. She was built for Balfour Bain & Partners, Kirkwall, Orkney. These photos were taken at the time of her…
We are very grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for this collection of photos of the Campbeltown-built Guardian Angell K 535 (Yard No. 91) which was launched in 1992. She was built for Balfour Bain & Partners, Kirkwall, Orkney. These photos were taken at the time of her…
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…
We are very grateful to Gloria Wilson for allowing us to share an article written by her for Fishing News about the Campbeltown-built Challenger II PD 212 (Yard No. 37) built for Andrew Strachan of Peterhead . The article was published on 17th February, 1978. Gloria is a writer and…
We are very grateful to Gloria Wilson for allowing us to share her original manuscript for an article about Campbeltown Shipyard published in Fishing News in 1976. Gloria is a writer and artist who grew up in Surrey but who spent her childhood and teens in the Yorkshire fishing village…
We are grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for this comprehensive collection of photos of the Marigold INS 241 (Yard No. 86) at the time of her launch and sea trials. There are so many photos that we have made two entries on the archive (you can view…
“AJAX” LAUNCHED. This article is about the launch of the Ajax INS 82 (Yard No. 012) which was commissioned and built for Skipper Willie Campbell of Lossiemouth. She was the second 80 footer built at Campbeltown Shipyard, the first was built the same year for Willie’s brother, Andrew ( The…
Helenus FR 121 was built at Campbeltown Shipyard in 1987 as Wave Sheaf LK134 (Yard No. 80) for Tomas Goodlad of Hamnavoe, Shetland. We have published some photographs by Bobby Wylie of her from the time of her launch/sea trials in Campbeltown. The Wave Sheaf is still fishing out of…
We are very grateful to Peter Drummond, co-author of Fishing Boats of Campbeltown Shipyard, for allowing us to share this collection of photos of Campbeltown-built boats. Peter and Sam Henderson’s book, a labour of love, is painstakingly researched, documenting the history of Campbeltown-built fishing vessels up until 2009. We will be…
We are very grateful to Sam Henderson, co-author of Fishing Boats of Campbeltown Shipyard, for allowing us to share this collection of photos of Campbeltown- built boats. Sam and Peter Drummond’s book, a labour of love, is painstakingly researched, documenting the history of Campbeltown-built fishing vessels up until 2009. Advance…
