The James Milloy Campbell Collection

Marchioness of Breadalbane, James Milloy Campbell Collection

The collection was sent to Inverclyde Heritage Network from Dale and Sheila Sweet who live in Erie Pennsylvania.

In the middle to late 1960s, Dale served in the US Navy aboard the Simon Lake in the Holy Loch for about three years.  He met Sheila Millar, a Gourockian, and they were married there. While here Dale also fell in love with the old steamers on the Clyde.  

Sheila’s uncle, James Milloy Campbell (1927 – 1993), lived in Adam Street in Gourock. James loved everything about ships and steamers. He did his national service, two years, with the Royal Navy, possibly on an aircraft carrier stationed in Malta, as a stoker mechanic. 

He emigrated to the USA about 1953 with his wife Anna.  After retirement James moved to California where he started building models of steamers he remembered from his youth. 

James left Dale and Sheila seventy-two beautiful pictures of the old steamers but they have no idea how he obtained them. A lot of the photos have the stamp of a photographer in Gourock.

Dale and Sheila feel that the photographs belong back in Scotland where others would enjoy them for which we are very grateful.