We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland this article, ‘Bigger ‘Adonis’ Returns to Sea’, published in Fishing News on 2nd September, 1988 – report by James Nicholson. This article relates to alternations made to the Campbeltown-built Adonis LK 172 (Yard No. 70, 1985) at the Malakoff Yard in Shetland. …
Malakoff
We are grateful to Leslie Campbell, who runs the A Day in the Life of Kilkeel Harbour Facebook group (worth a look!), for the following information on the history of the Campbeltown Alert FR 147 (Yard No. 19) – 1974. We’re not sure who has taken the photographs that Leslie…
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…