Harry Kinley

Captain Harry Kinley, born 1908, talks to interviewer David Callister about his memories.

• Growing up in a seafaring family
• Early ambition of going to sea
• Joining the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company
• Mona’s Isle and The Lady of Mann
• WWII experiences
• Holman Projector on board The Viking
• Bombing near Dunkirk
• Transporting children from the Channel Islands
• Examination for Master’s ticket
• Master of The Ben my Chree
• Man lost overboard on The Lady of Mann
• Tourists visiting the Isle of Man

Captain Harry Kinley, born in 1908, talks to John Rimmington about some of his memories, including:

• Growing up on Barnee Moo Hill, Fistard
• The Chasms and rowing boats in Perwick
• The Perwick Hotel and the Clague family
• Sugar Loaf Rock and Spanish Head
• The Manx Fencibles
• Fishing and the herrin’[herring] boats
• Chasms Café and Chicken’s Rock
• Grounding of The Lady Plymouth
• WWII and U-boats
• Early school days and further education
• Cregneash Village
• Siblings and Christmas memories
• The Spar Quarry
• Sheep Hole cave, Perwick
• Local characters
• Childhood games

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• Interview with Captain Harry Kinley

  Captain Harry Kinley, born in 1908, talks to John Rimmington about some of his memories, including:

  Growing up on Barnee Moo Hill, Fistard
  The Chasms and rowing boats in Perwick
  The Perwick Hotel and the Clague family
  Sugar Loaf Rock and Spanish Head
  The Manx Fencibles
  Fishing and the herrin’[herring] boats
  Chasms Café and Chicken’s Rock
  Grounding of The Lady Plymouth
  WWII and U-boats
  Early school days and further education
  Cregneash Village
  Siblings and Christmas memories
  The Spar Quarry
  Sheep Hole cave, Perwick
  Local characters
  Childhood games

  
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• Interview with Captain Harry Kinley (part 2)

  Captain Harry Kinley, born 1908, talks to interviewer David Callister about his memories.

  Growing up in a seafaring family
  Early ambition of going to sea
  Joining the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company
  Mona’s Isle and The Lady of Mann
  WWII experiences
  Holman Projector on board The Viking
  Bombing near Dunkirk
  Transporting children from the Channel Islands
  Examination for Master’s ticket
  Master of The Ben my Chree
  Man lost overboard on The Lady of Mann
  Tourists visiting the Isle of Man

  
  Download Transcript of this interview