Retirement
Following his retirement Timbrell became president of the Dominion Marine Association an organisation related to shipping on the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway. He held this position until 1985, when he moved from Ottawa to Chester Basin, Nova Scotia.
He made a final return to Dunkirk in May 2000, as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations. The Llanthony had been restored for the occasion, but in the event bad weather meant he could not complete the crossing on his original vessel, so he travelled on the British destroyer, HMS Somerset.
He died on April 11, 2006 and is survived by his widow (Patricia Timbrell née Jones, after nearly 60 years of marriage), their daughter and their grandson, who is following the family naval tradition, currently an Acting Sub-Lieutenant in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command.
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