Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
IOBA Events of Interest.
Please check back regularly for updates here, where you will see various activities of the IOBA.
All Old Boys and Staff are Cordially invited to the following Events.
April (20th) 2013 – Lord Mayor’s Charity Ball, Liverpool.
May (20th) 2013 – 2012 Indefatigable Cup presentation: IOBA’s seventh Sea Cadet Award, T.S. Blackcap (Unit SCC) – Birkenhead UK.
May (24 – 27th) 2013 – 70th Anniversary Battle of the Atlantic, Liverpool.
June (8th) 2013 – 10:30 IOBA 30th Annual Reunion School Visit & AGM, Llanfair PG (All Old Boys and Staff are Cordially invited).
June (8th) 2013 – 19:30 IOBA Reunion Evening Dinner, Carreg Mon Hotel, Llanfair PG (IOBA Membership is kindly required to attend the Reunion Evening Dinner). To pay for the 2013 reunion Lunch & Dinner: Please see ‘2013 Reunion payments’.
June (9th) 2013 – 09:00 Holy Communion Service St Marys, Llanfair PG.
September (1st) 2013 – Merchant Navy Memorial Service Liverpool.
TBA 2014 – Indefatigable 150th Anniversary Celebration.
Please contact IOBA: Secretary steve_c_humphries@btinternet.com if you would like more information on Events above, and any you would like add to.
Pictures from the 2012 Merchant Navy Day Memorial Service in Liverpool
The Annual Merchant Navy Memorial service is held at the Liverpool parish church ‘Our Lady and St Nicholas’. In commemoration of 30,000 British Merchant Sailors who have sacrificed their lives. There was a parade of Merchant Navy Standards and Standards of other Associations (IOBA), followed by serving and retired Merchant Seafarers with other Organisations. This Annual service is always held on the Sunday nearest to Merchant Navy Day, in memory of Merchant Seafarers who died in World Wars I and II and in conflicts up to the present day.
The service, started at 12:00, followed by laying of Wreaths at the MN Memorial, all attendees who attend the Merchant Navy Memorial service were invited to a late lunch at: The Eldonian Village Hall, off Burlington Street (LV3 6NL).
Pictures: Note the HIGH level of the ‘INDEFATIGABLE’ ensign (img_4861 & img_4872)!
Thank you Pat Moran.
