Fishing Boats of Campbeltown Shipyard
Fishing Boats of Campbeltown Shipyard

Author: Peter Drummond

Publisher: History Press

Published: 2009-01-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780752447650

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The boatbuilding industry has always had its ups and downs, reflecting the changing fortunes of the fishing industry. Campbeltown Shipyard diversified its boatbuilding activities in order to survive but competition from foreign yards moved into a new dimension from the mid-1990s onwards. In addition, decommissioning, restricted days at sea, and shrinking quotas have left the Scottish fleet a shadow of its former self. However, by the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, things were beginning to look up for the remaining vessels, including several survivors of the boats built by Campbeltown Shipyard. Today the empty buildings which once comprised the shipyard betray no trace of the hive of activity which once existed there and produced some of the most successful fishing vessels ever built in Scotland, yet with former boats still turning impressive performances, the fishing industry will long remember the fishing boats of Campbeltown Shipyard.

Fishing Boats Around Scotland
Fishing Boats Around Scotland

Author: Peter Drummond

Publisher: History Press

Published: 2023-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781803991160

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One of the best collections of pictures of fishing vessels ever assembled

British Motor Fishing Vessels
British Motor Fishing Vessels

Author: John McWilliams

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2018-04-15

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1445678640

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With a terrific array of rare and unpublished images, John McWilliams looks at some of the fishing boats that can be found around the coast of Britain.

Wooden Fishing Boats of Scotland
Wooden Fishing Boats of Scotland

Author: James A. Pottinger

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0752492047

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With the gradual phasing out of wooden fishing boats of Scotland it is timely to record some of these handsome vessels. In the years from 1960–80 boat builders produced some of their most shapely and graceful craft, a testament to the skill of both the builders and designers. Initially the designs were a collaboration of builders and skippers, but later the implementation of statutory rules demanded a more structured approach by qualified naval architects, which inevitably resulted in a certain degree of standardisation. James A. Pottinger's new illustrated volume concentrates solely on the graceful wooden boats, large and small, regarded by many to be the best looking boats of all. Many boats are photographed at sea, while other views range from repairs being carried out to the more melancholy sight of beautiful craft being cut up. Boats were once scrapped only due to old age, but sadly political factors now often dictate the destruction of the classic wooden craft included here.

Scotland's Fishing Boats
Scotland's Fishing Boats

Author: James A. Pottinger

Publisher: History Press

Published: 2018-02-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780750983624

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A vivid new selection of fishing boats around Scotland and the Isles

Sputniks and Spinningdales
Sputniks and Spinningdales

Author: Peter Drummond

Publisher: History Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780752454528

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A memorial to the sputniks and Spinningdales - two classes of series-built side trawlers - with brief histories and photographs, and some fine fishermen's anecdotes about the multitude of things these boats did during some of the best years the fishing industry.

Built by Nobles of Girvan
Built by Nobles of Girvan

Author: Sam Henderson

Publisher:

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780752454511

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Built by Nobles of Girvan gives a wonderfully comprehensive account of one of Scotland's finest boat-building companies -Alexander Noble & Sons Ltd of Girvan - from its founding in 1946 to the present-day. The phrase 'Built by Nobles of Girvan' is synonymous with the construction of finely crafted wooden fishing vessels - in particular some wonderfully elegant and successful ring netters - yet to think of the yard as a builder of ringers only is to deny it its versatility.While the ringers take pride of place in this book it also covers the other types of fishing vessels built in Girvan, including forty-footers, seiners and trawlers as well as the yard's diversification into construction, using steel, of both fishing and non-fishing boats.This book is the master list of Nobles' fishing boats. It records the main dimensions of each boat, the major changes which took place during her lifetime and her ultimate fate. The history of the yard is covered in an insightful introduction which includes some fine fishermen's tales of big catches and happy days spent fishing, as well as detailing the other activities that took place there such as that of maintenance and repair work.Featuring over 180 photographs, many previously unpublished and from the Nobles archives, each fishing vessel is illustrated by at least one image, allowing readers the incredible opportunity to revisit the grand sight of a varnished Nobles boat in her heyday.