File. Orders of Service 'Dedications, Blessings and Unveilings of Memorials and Gifts'

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File. Orders of Service 'Dedications, Blessings and Unveilings of Memorials and Gifts'

Reference No:: U DMS/14/19
Dates:: 1913-1991
Description:: Printed orders of service for the following services of dedication, blessings and unveilings: St Peter's Seaman's Church, Antwerp, in memory of W. Dawson, 5 Jun 1913; Enlarged organ at Seamens' Institute, Mill Dam, South Shields, 23 Jul 1913; H.H. Wills Memorial, Avonmouth, 24 Feb 1925; Samuel Plimsoll memorial, Victoria Embankment Gardens, 21 Aug 1929; reredos, George Fossick Wilson Memorial Church, Glasgow, 29 Sep 1931; memorial in Mariners' Church of St Christopher, Sunderland, 30 May 1933; window in memory of the crew of steamship 'Samkey', St Andrew's Church, London, 29 Apr 1949; organ in memory of crew of 'Dromus', Seafarers Chapel, Singapore, 23 Sep 1951; cross and altar lights in memory of Stanley Arthur James Bradley, St Nicholas Church Rochester, 28 Nov 1951; memorial window to Reverend Thomas Hardy in Mariners Church of St Christopher, Sunderland, 29 Apr 1952; memorial window in St Mary's Greenhithe, 15 Feb 1953; carved reredos and memorial book of Tyneside merchant seamen at Mill Dam, South Shields, 26 Feb 1954; war memorial window in Greenithe Parish Church, 12 May 1954; Merchant Navy memorial on Tower Hill, 5 Nov 1955; St Andrews Mariners' Chapel memorials and gifts, 15 Sep 1957; bells at St Marys Rotterdam, 17 Nov 1957; seat in memory of Reverend Thomas Harold Elkington at Custom House Quay, Falmouth, 6 July 1958; carved panels, Vancouver, 29 Apr 1962; font gifted by Royal East African Navy to St Nicholas Chapel, Mombasa, 10 Jun 1962; prayer desk in Mariners' Chapel of St George, New Westminster, 19 Jun 1962; standard of the Royal Naval Association (Welshpool Branch), 28 Oct 1962; Catherine Willis Begg memorial lounge at Swansea MtS, 23 Jul [?]; World War I memorial tablets and World War II memorial window at London International Cruise Terminal, Port of Tilbury, 12 Nov 1991. Also includes generic forms of service for dedication of a tablet or other memorial, an altar or holy table, and a rose garden.
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Extent:: 1 file (26 pieces)
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Repository:: Hull University Archives
Collection:: Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen)