Jan Nimmo

We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this article, “Back in the Hunt”, published in Fishing News on 16th February, 1996, about the Shemarah II LH 65 (Yard No. 97), a boat commissioned by G. Moodie & Sons Trawlers  Ltd, Longniddry. Report by Peter Johnson. Campbeltown Nets New…

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We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this cutting published in Fishing News 8th April, 1988 – Your Guide to Fishing 88. Your Guide to… Fishing 88 Published in Fishing News on 8th April, 1988. Courtesy of Ronnie Young Campbeltown Shipyard – Stand E7. Fishing 88. Published in…

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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…

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