File. Mediterranean

Reference No:
U DMS/12/32
Dates:
11 Nov 1924-29 Jun 2000
Description:
Contains the following papers relating to Mission to Seafarers work in the Mediterranean: correspondence of Mr Knox and of Captain G.L. Parnell as Assistant Secretary of Mission to Seafarers with contacts re the Mediterranean mission, 1924-1925; copy scheme for amalgamation of the Mediterranean Mission to Seamen and the Missions to Seamen, and draft and true copy memorandum of agreement re the same, May 1925; correspondence of Reverend Cyril Brown and Reverend W.J.D. Down for Mission to Seafarers with contacts re the Mediterranean; report of a meeting held between Reverend Brown and the Bishop of Gibraltar in 1964; report on work in Algiers; extracts from minutes relating to work in the Mediterranean. Relates to various matters including: amalgamation of the Mediterranean Mission with the Mission to Seafarers in 1925; new seafarers' club in Las Palmas in 1961; consultative committee including the British Sailors Society; missioners' wages; named chaplains and personnel; gravestones to mark merchant seamen buried in Algiers; P&O cruises and chaplaincy on the High Seas; chaplain required at Gibraltar.
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen)