... mentions that Roberts and Cooper Ltd owned two ships one of which was known as Brierley Doing some research about three weeks ago concerning merchant shipping in the First World War I came across a ship which was lost called the Brierley Hill My wife Muriel ...

... the ship when it limped back to Plymouth for repairs after the battle to congratulate the crew Sadly Uncle George lost his life aboard HMS Niger when on convoy duty off the coast of Iceland in 1942 when the ship hit a mine and all hands were lost Victor ...

... that worn by officers on the ‘Titanic’ I then visited my local library looking for information about the ship ‘Olympic’ Again I was lucky A ship called the ‘Olympic’ - built in 191 1 - apparently had a serious collision with the cruiser ‘HMS Hawke’ when ...

... The captain of the America-bound ship used his utmost skill to escape the speed and cannon of the lighter pirate vessel which in its efforts to capture them loaded on too much sail and at a crucial moment in the chase lost both masts But for this fortunate ...

... programmes both Tony and his long-time training companion Wally Morgan reckon that once gained such attributes are never entirely lost - nor does the camaraderie created by such arduous and intensive training ever fade Husband: “I’ve booked us up on that MYSTERY ...

... Of his 183 contests he won 129 drew 11 lost 41 and took part in 1 no-decision bout He took the British lightweight title from Jimmy Walsh in 1938 outpointing him over 15 rounds at Liverpool on June 23rd - but lost it in his first defence 6 months later ...

... from his sinking ship and on his the red carpet treatment in his home town His ship HMS Triumph had been torpedoed in the Dardenelles with fifty six crewmen lost Fred was one of the lucky three hundred who were rescued by other British ships who came to their ...

... that time What a fatal mistake that was for a single torpedo burst through the net and sank the ship in just eight minutes Fifty six crew members were lost but destroyers that came to the rescue were able to pull another three hundred to safety Bilston’s ...

... We have no names for those to the rear Earlier in the year we ran a competition for short story writers amongst our reader-ship the catalyst being a pen and ink drawing of ‘an old house on a hill’ We were mightily pleased with the quantity and quality ...

... General Election was coming up and the Government were taking ships out of ‘mothballs’ and refitting them in private yards to create employment I was involved in taking several such ships to private yards and all of them were afterwards sold for scrap ...

... passed-down ‘funny story’ concerning a keenly-contested dominoes match in a Rowley pub involving his father and a Navy man who lost his team the match after putting down the wrong domino A few ribald comments followed interlaced with the kind of local humour ...

... aged 64 We know that Lavinia lived on for some years after George’s death but seem to have lost track of her I am researching this lady on behalf of some long lost cousins from New Zealand shortly to visit UK for a fam-ily gathering Any information on this ...