Thanks to Jim Smith, former Technical Manager at CSL for the following information on George McGregor a draughtsman who worked at the yard. When I arrived at the yard in 1973, George McGregor was probably in his mid to late fifties. I think he was there from 1968 and he…
We are grateful for Danny McGeachy for allowing us to scan and share these documents which are all related to the Orkney Reiver K49 (Yard No. 65). The Orkney Reiver was built at Campbeltown Shipyard in 1983 for Tom Harcus of Westray, Orkney. We asked former Technical Manager, Jim Smith,…
Over the years Campbeltown Shipyard Ltd took part in a number of fishing exhibitions in London, Glasgow, Anstruther, Aberdeen and Dublin. Here are a couple of photos from Bobby Wylie of the Campbeltown Shipyard Stand at an exhibition which CSL attended around 1984. Jim Smith, former Technical Manager at CLS,…
We are grateful to Douglas McNaught, former naval architect at Campbeltown Shipyard, for sharing this specification workbook for Heather Bloom (Yard 92) which as built in 1992 for John McLeman of Avoch. This is preliminary workbook in preparation for adding information for electricians, which would show lighting, sockets etc. Pages…
We are grateful to Douglas McNaught, former Naval architect at Campbeltown Shipyard, for sharing some of his archive with us. This archive entry includes correspondence between Heimdal Propulsion A-S, Norway and the Yard in Campbeltown and also performance diagrams for the PD-1850mm 19a (Ka-3-65 series) nozzle propeller. 3rd September, 1987….
We are very grateful to Bobby Wylie, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for this collection of photographs of the Solea (Yard No. 85), a 110 foot well boat/live fish carrier built in 1989 for Golden Sea Produce. As far as we are aware the Solea is still in service. We haven’t…
We are very grateful to those of you who came along to our final drop-in session on Monday 14th October at Campbeltown Town Hall. There will be an exhibition planning meeting late November/early December – dates and venue will be confirmed here on the website and on the Top Skippers’…
We are very grateful to Jim Smith, formerly of Campbeltown Shipyard, for allowing us to share his collection of photos from his time at the yard. Read more about Jim here. Sunbeam LK 335 (Yard no. 76) at the time of her launch. Photo courtesy of Jim Smith. Sunbeam…
L-R Iain Munro (son of John Munro), Danny Cassidy, Adam McClelland, Jim Smith, Billy McLean, Davy Howell, Davy Anderson, Kenny McMillan, George Nelson, Billy Galbraith, Jock Kerr, Iain McCallum, John Campbell, Peter McCallum and Bobby Wylie. Photo courtesy of Jan Nimmo. We’d like to thank everyone who came along to…
I started working in the Campbeltown Shipyard drawing office as a draughtsman in April 1973. I had served my apprenticeship with Scottish Machine Tools and Kelvin Marine Engines in Glasgow. Douglas McNaught was the Naval Architect and George MacGregor was the other draughtsman. Douglas had worked at Denny’s yard in…
