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Lifeboat members to be honoured
Kathleen Whelan, Margaret and Seamus O'Reilly at the Balbriggan senior citizens monthly bingo.
Wednesday November 11 2009
HEROIC lifeboat crewmembers from Skerries are to be honoured on the RNLI's first memorial which is due to be unveiled shortly in England. Six names on the memorial which is being erected at the RNLI headquarters in Dorset belong to Skerries volunteers who lost their lives in 1873 when their lifeboat capsized. The men who were trying to save the lives of the crew onboard the schooner 'Sara of Runcorn' will never be forgotten by anyone serving at the Lifeboat Station in Skerries.
