Loss of the SS Isabo

Great story, connection, picture and a great link to one we looked at earlier too.
Wonderful.
PPz keeps getting better.

Like all lifeboat men Father Matt Lethbridge had a richly earned haul of medals, letters of thanks, vellums etc. When I knew him, this modest man, when asked, would talk of the many years spent as coxwain of the lifeboat. Although monetarily of little value he was very proud of his trophies, although I can tell you that when talking about the Isabo he apologised to me that his vellum from the Italian Government had been signed by the minister of transport at the time Benito Mussolini.

@treeve,I ve no doubt that you already have a book in your possession called Tresco Times - The Last Piece of England , containing an account of the loss of the Isabo.
I enjoyed reading your account on Hearts of Oak.

@Penzancemaid - thanks for that, I was not aware of the Tresco book, I will have to get a copy. Val Moyse and I have worked on the Pender tree of Bryher and I have finished much of the Jenkin tree (of Tresco). The Thompson tree (of St Mary s) was almost as hard as the Penders and Jenkins, but it is now complete. The Museum on St Mary s has been helpful (after all I did the drawings of it and looked after the contract), I also communicate with Roger Banfield and Fred Ticehurst. I have a number of projects in hand, some totally unreported or online in any way; I have managed to re-create the missing Shipping Registers of the Isles of Scilly; as much as I would like to believe that we are all immortal, I know that there is only so much one person can do in this life that we are given.

The book in question is mentioned at the top and bottom of the islandrace.com webpage whose address you have given on your Isabo page on Hearts of Oak.

Do you know, I wrote that webpage in 2004 and I did not notice that book leader ... doh... I think, what with one thing and another, the Forces that Be are calling me to go to the Land of my Mother ....

By which I hope you mean Scilly, and not the other place!!

Quite! When I walk around to Bank Cottage on Bryher, I am Home. When I sit at Hell Bay, I am Home, Pelistry, Carn Thomas (linked very strongly to my Thompson side), the much altered Porthcressa, Garrison .... looking across to At Agnes and The Gugh, seeing the Eastern Isles and the Bishop .... then across to the amazing St Martins ... and finally Tresco ... Heaven. I can dream .....

Lovely.....