Francis, what a dear you are! I went to the site you gave, and although it doesn't mention my Ted Cork(h)ill, it mentions so many other names my grandfather had written in his notes. The Snaefell--I really wasn't sure if I was reading that right. The Ellan Vannin--I had transcribed as Ellen Vanna. He mentioned a large shipyard at Barrow where these steamers docked for repairs--I translate it as Vickers Moxin and could not find any reference to it in the site you recommended. He describes a great gale in the end of 1909 where the headlines screamed "Feared loss of the Ellan Vannin" She had left the port of Ramsay on the other side of the Island for Liverpool and at daylight her masts were sticking up out of the water just where the boats entered the Mersey?-again my transcription,- to go into Liverpool. A widow named Callister was a stewardess amongst the missing.

Ted, it seems took over the duties of Harbour Master in Douglas in abt. 1910.