- Date
- circa 1971
- Kind
- Rescue
- Where
- Saint James Harbor
- Participants
- Timmy Turner (survivor) · Jim Wogan (rescuer) · Ron Wogan (rescuer)
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communitymaritimeheritage
- Within
- Saint James Harbor
Summary
The August–September 1971 Beaver Beacon reports that eight-year-old Timmy Turner fell into Saint James Harbor between the Beaver Islander and dock. Jim and Ron Wogan pulled him from the water after Deputy Sheriff Bill Welke noticed the incident while checking freight after dark.
Evidence and limits
The source calls the rescue a narrowly avoided tragedy but gives no calendar date, water conditions, injury assessment, or official harbor or law-enforcement record. The named people remain episode-qualified.
See also
Sources
- Reports that Deputy Sheriff Bill Welke saw Jim and Ron Wogan pull eight-year-old Timmy Turner from the harbor after he fell between the Beaver Islander and dock; it supplies no exact date, weather, witness list, or official rescue report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1971-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1971-08_Beaver-Beacon
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Harbor rescue of Timmy Turner, 1971”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/harbor-rescue-of-timmy-turner-1971/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August–September 1971, “Tragedy Averted.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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