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Campbeltown, The Trench, Military Base, Hms Nimrod

Military Installation (20th Century)

Site Name Campbeltown, The Trench, Military Base, Hms Nimrod

Classification Military Installation (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Fort Argyll; Trench Point

Canmore ID 286749

Site Number NR72SW 161.02

NGR NR 73484 20516

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Campbeltown
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NR72SW 161.02 73484 20516

A small military installation has been identified from large scale vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot 364, 5021-5022, flown 25 April 1948), on Trench Point on the N bank of Campbeltown Loch. The installation was built on the site of an earlier boatyard. No pier is visible, only a slipway

The installation was built on most of the point and consisted of over twenty huts, mainly of the Nissen type. With the enclosed area is a pitched slated roofed building probably used by the military. Visible on the air photographs are rows of what may be oil drums, in some cases two high.

It is not known when the this installation opened and closed, the site being later occupied by the Campbeltown Shipbuilding Company..

Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 2007

Identified as possibly HMS Nimrod a World War II training station in anti-submarine warfare. Training camp was for the practical training in submarine detection.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) November 2009.

B Lavery 2004.

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