Another part of the family settled in Guernsey in the 19th century, where in addition to school teaching, they owned the Rankilor Shipyard in Saint Sampson, making boats and schooners.
The parish church of St. Sampson claims to be the oldest of Guernsey's parish churches, standing on the coast where Samson of Dol arrived from Brittany in the sixth century, intending to convert Islanders to Christianity.
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On Saturday 14 August 1943 at approximately 3:30PM William Corbet set off from the Parish of St. Sampson’s in his privately owned fishing vessel which measured 18 feet in length.