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 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.

New ‘SIX yard Indefatigable’ flag was collected today (11/04/12).

Seen here IOBA members, Marc Hardman & Russell Jones holding each corner(!), picture taken at the Albert Dock – Liverpool.

The Blue Ensign was hung at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral for the ‘Titanic 100th anniversary memorial concert’ Saturday March 24th. See our Web Page ‘Tribute to Titanic’ for more.

http://indeoba.c4242423.myzen.co.uk/?p=186

It was agreed to make the flag into our own ‘Ships Flag’, by Ensign Flags Co. A TWO meter ‘Liverbird’ was stitched on both sides (in proportion to the size of the flag). This will have impact when flown at Reunion’s / MN Day above the Liverbird Building itself!

Our thanks must go to IOBA Member: Tim Davis 90/94 for giving the blue ensign to the IOBA in the first place, to Pat Moran Hon Member and Marc Hardman 1961 who helped organise the final product.

Regards,

Steve Humphries 75/76.
Indefatigable Old Boys Association: Secretary & Archives Secretary.

Training Ship Indefatigable was a British training school for boys intending to join the Royal Navy or the Merchant Navy.

Until the middle of the nineteenth century the British Merchant Navy had no recognized training schools for boys entering the service. Education consisted of boys about 15 years old going to sea “to be led, guided, bullied and socialized into the culture of the sea”. There was no distinction between training for AB, and the training of future masters. Through experience it was possible to rise to the position of Master without any formal training. Beginning in the mid- nineteenth century various forms of navigational and seamanship schools were created to remedy the problem.

Source: http://www.liverpoolshipsandsailors.com/2012/03/26/the-indefatigable/

Dear all,

It is with sadness and deep regret that I inform you of the passing of IOBA Honorary Member Pat Purser.

I could write pages of eulogy regarding Pat, and I am sure many of you will wish to publish your own thoughts and stories, which we would welcome, of this wonderful man.

I would like to summarise my sentiments by reminding you of the note I read out when we voted Pat into the Association as an Honorary Member back in 2008.

“It would be remiss of me not to say a little more about Pat Purser. It would be an understatement to say that the IOBA would not be what it is today without the tremendous enthusiasm, and dedication shown by him in the dark days of the schools liquidation. For those of you who have had the opportunity to read Pat’s memoirs from that time, you cannot fail to be amazed at what was happening behind the scenes, such incompetence and mismanagement on the part of the schools governing body clearly resulted in its early demise. I know that Pat would be the first to admit that the writing was probably on the wall for some time, but with a responsible Board, the end of the Indefatigable as our school, could and should have been far less painful. Pat, battling against such adversity, was instrumental in setting up what we have today, his motivation and tenacity has lived on in our membership”.

Although Pat had been absent from our reunions for a while, it was a great pleasure for all of us to see him return in 2008, and I am just so grateful that we were able to hear wonderful stories of his days at the Indefatigable and his unstinting efforts to save the School and the formation of our Association.

The funeral will be held at 13.30 on Wednesday 1st February at Bangor Crematorium.

Yours with great sadness.

Bill O’Leary

Chairman

IOBA

Pat Purser and Barry Priddis