We’re very grateful to Gary Nicolson, of Shapinsay, Orkney, for this set of photographs of the Campbeltown-built Thorsvoe Ferry which was built at the yard in 1991 and is still in service in Orkney. Here are some of my photos of the Campbeltown-built ferry, Thorsvoe. She was built for Orkney…
We are very grateful to Ronnie McNally, former Foreman Loftsman, at Campbeltown Shipyard for these photos. Ronnie put this collection together of around a 100 photos of boats that were built at the yard. They were displayed on the wall of the loft at the yard during the time that…
We are very grateful to Ronnie McNally, former Foreman Loftsman, at Campbeltown Shipyard for these photos. Ronnie put this collection together of around a 100 photos of boats that were built at the yard. They were displayed on the wall of the loft at the yard during the time that…
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…
TWO MORE FOR SHIPYARD – Article published in the Campbeltown Courier on 25th October, 1973, about two new orders: one from Albert Smith of Anstruther for a boat that was to be built as the Renown KY 257 and another, from Bobby Baird of Peterhead, which for some reason never…
We are very grateful to Ronnie McNally, former Foreman Loftsman, at Campbeltown Shipyard for these photos. Ronnie put this collection together of around a 100 photos of boats that were built at the yard. They were displayed on the wall of the loft at the yard during the time that…
We are very grateful to Ronnie McNally, former Foreman Loftsman, at Campbeltown Shipyard for these photos. Ronnie put this collection together of around a 100 photos of boats that were built at the yard. They were displayed on the wall of the loft at the yard during the time that…
We’re very grateful to Bob Mainprize of Scarborough for allowing us to share this wonderful video of the sea trials of his boat, Maggie M MBE SH 170 (Yard no.81). She was built at Campbeltown Shipyard during 1987 and was launched the following year – her sea trials took place…
It was early in May 1977, in the middle of my final exams, and four weeks away from leaving school, when a notice was sent out to all who were interested, that Trevor Perkins, Manager of Campbeltown Shipyard, was going to be in the school on a recruitment drive. Moira…
Following on from a piece written by Billy McLean, of Campbeltown, a former plater with Campbeltown Shipyard, we are adding a collection of his photographs which show two outreach projects where men from the Campbeltown yard were contracted out to work helping out in other yards, firstly at the Malakoff…
