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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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. …
We are very grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this article from Fishing News, published on 23rd December, 1988. Shetland’s New ‘Endeavour’, by James Nicolson, is feature about the Endeavour LK 173 (Yard No. 83) which was built in 1988 at Campbeltown Shipyard for Brian Morrison and Partners of…
We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this article about the Campbeltown-built ‘Be Ready’ LK 377 (Yard No. 69). We have already published a photocopy of this article from Bobby Wylie but here we can view a scan of the original article, published on 20th March, 1987. You…
We are grateful to Theo Fullerton and his wife, Betty, for these photos of the launch of Theo’s boat, the Campbeltown-built Be Ready LK 377 (Yard No. 69), which was commissioned and constructed in 1984 and launched in January 1985 at Trench Point. You can view more photos by Bobby…
We are grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this cutting of an article published in Fishing News on 1st June, 1990. July square mesh trials on ‘Sunbeam’. This article talks about a joint venture between Shetland Council and DAFS Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, to show whether square mesh released more…
We are very grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this information sheet showing drawings and detailing specifications for the Campbeltown 90′ design. Although Campbeltown Shipyard built many 87′ footers it didn’t actually build any 90′ boats so this must have been a specification for a speculative design. Campbeltown 90′…
We are very grateful to Ronnie Young of Shetland for this information sheet showing drawings and detailing specifications for the Campbeltown 80′ design. The first “80 footer”, the Argosy INS 79 (Yard No. 11), was built for Andrew Campbell & Partners of Lossiemouth in 1972. Campbeltown 80′ design and specification….
SHIPYARD DOES IT THE RIGHT WAY – This is an article published in the Campbeltown Courier on 10th October, 1980 which talks about the launch of the Sunbeam LK 355 (Yard No. 52). She was built for for John Garriock & Partners, Reavick, Shetland. Courtesy of Campbeltown Library. SHIPYARD DOES…
We are very grateful to Ronnie Young of Sandwick, Shetland, for sharing his memorabilia with us. We will be publishing his collected material about Campbeltown-built boats in various entries here on the online archive. In this entry we are publishing three photos of the signing of the contract for the…