Launched in 1973, this Macduff-built 50-footer is now a stalwart of the Campbeltown fleet By Mike Smylie When John Watt took over premises in Macduff and changed the firm’s name to Macduff Boatbuilding and Engineering Company in 1966 to enable…
Fifty-one years ago this February, the Hull trawler Gaul and her 36 crew were lost without trace, a tragedy that inspired decades of speculation and campaigning. By BRIAN W LAVERY In the years after the Gaul H 243 vanished off…
Like Silver Cloud II, the 49ft Strathgarry SY 88 was built by Gerrard Brothers of Arbroath, though in the previous year, 1971. Built for Angus McLeod (‘Stuttery Angus’) and Donald M Murray of the Isle of Lewis, and financed with…
Launched as UL 63 in 1971, this Macduff-built stalwart has clocked up a long career in the North West of Scotland By Mike Smylie John Watt started building his boats in 1940 at Gardenstown, in a partnership with his two…
Launched as Boy Ken TT 70, this Noble’s stalwart was built for scalloping – as well as prawn trawling and herring and sprat pair-trawling – and 52 years later, she’s a fixture of the Manx scallop fleet By Mike Smylie …
This 1970 Noble’s vessel – the last of the series of Village Maids and Village Belles, built for the Jackson family of Tarbert – is still going strong The Jacksons were a well-known fishing family in Tarbert on Loch Fyne.…
With just two owners since her launch from Gerrard Brothers of Arbroath, this 1972 build is going strong
Built at the Miller’s yard in St Monans in 1971, Jeniska KY 253 has worked from Fife and Northern Ireland – and is now a fixture of the Campbeltown fleet By Mike Smylie It was a still night after the…
