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Stainless Steel Concave Gold Inlay Dragon Cubic Zirconia Band Ring - Men Size 7 (Size 7, 8, 9, 10)

A stainless steel band ring with a gold tone center etched with dragons and a cubic zirconia. The ring is 8mm wide and available from size 7 to 10. Stainless steel has high resistance to rust, corrosion and tarnishing. The stainless steel we used is high quality surgical stainless steel. This stainless steel is hypo-allergenic and is even safe to use for medical purpose. Stainless steel requires minimal maintenance in order to keep jewelry looking like new. You can get the matching women's ring to make this a couples ring set for your love ones (Product number 508510.9935W).

image above: Jack Sheppard, in Newgate Prison awaiting execution, in an engraving by George White from 1728, based on a painting by James Thornhill which has not survived.

Although only 23 years of age when he was executed at Tyburn, on the 16th of November, 1724, Jack Sheppard had become so notorious as a housebreaker and prison-breaker that his exploits were the talk of all ranks of society. A great warrior could not have received greater attention than this famous criminal. Books and pamphlets were written about him; a pantomime at Drury Lane, called Harlequin Sheppard, was based on the story of his adventures, and so was a three-act farce, called The Prison-Breaker. Dozens of songs and glees referred to his prowess, and clergymen preached sermons about him. Sir James Thornhill, the celebrated painter who decorated the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, painted his portrait, from which engravings in mezzotinto were made.

John Sheppard was born in Spitalfields in the year 1702. His father, who was a carpenter, bore the character of an honest man; yet he had another son, named Thomas, who as well as Jack, turned out a thief. The father dying while the boys were very young, they were left to the care of the mother, who placed Jack at a school in Bishopsgate Street where he remained two years, and was then put apprentice to a carpenter. He behaved with decency in this place for about four years, when, frequenting the Black Lion ale-house, in Drury Lane, he became acquainted with some abandoned women, among whom the principal was Elizabeth Lyon, otherwise called "Edgworth Bess," from the town of Edgworth, where she was born.

While he continued to work as a carpenter, he often committed robberies in the houses where he was employed, stealing tankards, spoons and other articles, which he carried to Edgworth Bess; but not being suspected of having committed these robberies, he at length resolved to commence housebreaking. Exclusive of Edgworth Bess, he was acquainted with a woman named Maggot, who persuaded him to rob the house of Mr Bains, a piece-broker in White Horse Yard; and Jack, having brought away a piece of fustian from thence (which he deposited in his trunk), went afterwards at midnight, and taking the bars out of the cellar window entered, and stole goods and money to the amount of twenty-two pounds, which he carried to Maggot.

As Sheppard did not go home that night, nor the following day, his master suspected that he had made bad connections, and searching his trunk found the piece of fustian that had been stolen; but Sheppard, hearing of this, broke open his master's house in the night and carried off the fustian, lest it should be brought in evidence against him.

Sheppard's master sending intelligence to Mr Bains of what had happened, the latter looked over his goods and, missing such a piece of fustian as had been described to hint, suspected that Sheppard must have been the robber, and determined to have him taken into custody; but Jack, hearing of the affair, went to him and threatened a prosecution for scandal, alleging that he had received the piece of fustian from his mother, who bought it for him in Spitalfields. The mother, with a view to screen her son, declared that what he had asserted was true, though she could not point out the place where she had made the purchase. Though this story was not credited, Mr Bains did not take any further steps in the affair.

Sheppard's master seemed willing to think well of him, and he remained some time longer in the family; but after associating himself with the worst of company, and frequently staying out the whole night, his master and he quarrelled, and the headstrong youth totally absconded in the last year of his apprenticeship and became connected with a set of villains of Jonathan Wild's gang.

Jack now worked as a journeyman carpenter, with a view to the easier commission of robbery; and being employed to assist in repairing the house of a gentleman in Mayfair he took an opportunity of carrying off a sum of money, a quantity of plate, some gold rings and four suits of clothes.

Not long after this Edgworth Bess was apprehended and lodged in the roundhouse of the parish of St Giles's, where Sheppard went to visit her, and the beadle refusing to admit him he knocked him down, broke open the door, and carried her off in triumph - an exploit which acquired him a high degree of credit with the women of abandoned character.

In the month of August, 1723, Thomas Sheppard, the brother of Jack, was indicted at the Old Bailey for two petty offences, and being convicted was burned in the hand. Soon after his discharge he prevailed on Jack to lend him forty shillings and take him as a partner in his robberies. The first act they committed in concert was the robbing of a public-house in Southwark, whence they carried off some money and wearing apparel; but Jack permitted his brother to reap the whole advantage of this booty.

Not long after this

Cadet Craig Holmes and 'adopted' family

"No bags, just people!"
Thirty years later Craig Holmes vividly remembers shouting those words down at the heaving deck alongside his ship and seeing hundreds of anxious faces staring back up at him.
The Vietnamese woman on the deck of the wooden boat moved across to the red Adidas sports bag which she had just tied to the end of the rope and pulled it aside.
"I could see two little faces," recalled Craig, sitting at the table of his Dunedin home.
His no-bags edict was quickly forgotten. As he slowly and cautiously pulled the little bundle of humanity up, his major concern was that the knot would hold.
Once he had the infants on board and safe from danger, Craig retied the knot just to make doubly sure it would not come away and sent the bag back over the side.
For the next hour or so the red sports bag was Craig's sole focus. He constantly checked the knot and the handles to make sure they were holding as he continued to bring children up on to the deck.
"I'm not sure exactly how many came up in that bag," he said, "but it could have been as many as 20."
Only a few hours earlier, on the evening of October 1, 1978, Craig had been sitting in his cabin on the bulk carrier MV Wellpark with a fellow cadet chatting about a correspondence course they both had to do.
Suddenly the ship's alarm bells sounded and Craig and the other cadets raced to their emergency stations on deck.
"At first we didn't have any idea what was going on," he said, "but then we heard that the second mate had spotted a distress flare."
The Wellpark tried to pick up the boat on radar, but as it was a small wooden vessel, that proved difficult.
It was a pitch-black night, with no moon and heavy cloud cover. The sea was rough with big swells whipped up by Cyclone Lola, which had just passed through the area.
"When I finally spotted the boat between the swells I thought she was on fire," Craig said.
Later he discovered that those on board had lit a tar fire in a drum to act as a distress signal.
Initially the crew thought they had encountered a fishing boat in distress and the captain, Hector Connell, decided to investigate by sending out one of the ship's motorised lifeboats.
"It was manned by six cadets plus the second mate," said Craig.
"I was one of those designated to stay on board to help organise the reception for anyone who might have to be taken off the boat."
At this stage the crew thought they might have to rescue just a handful of people off a fishing boat.
They had no idea that the 20m-long wooden vessel wallowing in heavy seas was without power and was crammed with almost 350 men, women and children.
They were also unaware that the boat was leaking and was slowly sinking. For the lifeboat crew, it was the start of a long, dangerous and uncomfortable mercy mission.
"A big issue was sea-sickness," said Craig.
For almost eight hours, the small lifeboat rode the huge swells.
It made two return journeys to the Wellpark with refugees and then, when the vessel was finally secured alongside the ship, stood by while the remaining refugees were taken on board in case the mooring lines came away.
"The first we knew the boat was carrying refugees was when the lifeboat radioed back and said there were literally hundreds of Vietnamese men, women and children on the vessel," said Craig.
This initial contact with the refugee craft was fraught with danger. As the lifeboat manoeuvred in close, they had to hold off slightly to prevent being thrown against the larger craft by the waves.
One of the junior cadets on board the lifeboat, Mike Newton, said that although the crew reached out, the desperate people initially resisted jumping into the lifeboat, fearful that their rescuers could not be trusted.
"There were shouts and cries in the confusion, but among it someone demanded of the lifeboat crew what nation they were from," he wrote in a letter to his mother.
"When the reply was given that they were British (Scottish at that), the word rapidly spread and without hesitation the first man jumped across the dark waters to the lifeboat.
"Quickly, in two more passes, about 15 men leapt from all angles for the boat, many landing heavily on the hard thwarts of the lifeboat as it bucked on the waves.
"Now the boat in distress was heeling over with the shift of humanity wanting to escape the deathtrap their boat had become."
Mike told his mother they tried to reassure those still on board the boat that they would return, and then headed back to the Wellpark.
On the return journey one of the men told the crew that there were more than 300 people on board and that they had escaped from South Vietnam. By now the remaining cadets on the Wellpark were organised into rescue teams on the deck.
They lowered cargo nets and a pilot ladder down the side of

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