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…
SHAPES IN THE WATER is a documentary made in 1974 about shipbuilding in Scotland. It was directed by Bill Forsyth. The film was produced by Tree Films and funded by Highlands and Islands Development Board. The latter part of the film shows scenes from Campbeltown Shipyard, Trench Point, Campbeltown. Running…
We are very grateful to Aonghus Donohue and his father, Coleman, for these pictures of the Kiloran G 209. She was originally built at Campbeltown Shipyard as Kiloran INS 10 (Yard No. 63) in 1983 for Lorant Andrews of Lossiemouth. Kiloran INS 10 became the Rosemount PD 313 in 1999…
We are very grateful to Gloria Wilson for allowing us to share an article written by her for Fishing News about the Campbeltown-built Kestrel INS 253 (Yard No. 40) built for Ian Sutherland of Hopeman. The article was published on August 11th, 1978. Gloria is a writer and artist who…
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 an article written by her for Fishing News about the Campbeltown-built Terra Nova A 219 (Yard No. 9), built forDennis Wilson of Aberdeen. The article was published on 10th March, 1972. Gloria is a writer and artist who…
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 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’…
At the same time as working on the Top Skipper’s’ Choice project, I have been gathering shipyard-related video testimony from around Scotland. Myself and Paul Barham travelled to Anstruther, Fife, earlier this year to meet with various skippers from the East Neuk of Fife. This particular interview is with Colin…
