File. Merchant Navy Welfare Board

Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen) > Executive Officers' Subject Files > File. Merchant Navy Welfare Board

Reference No:: U DMS/4/122
Dates:: 27 Nov 1940-25 Feb 1974
Description:: File containing extracts from minutes of meetings of the Missions to Seamen relating to the Merchant Navy Welfare Board and the society's involvement and business with the said Board, also report of a parliamentary committee on 'Seamen's Welfare in Ports' in 1943 and memorandum by the Missions to Seamen on the report, annual report of the Merchant Navy Welfare Board for 1953, information leaflet for the Missions to Seamen staff 'Seamen's Welfare in Ports (Great Britain)' dated Jul 1945, schedule of applications for extraordinary grants considered by the Finance Committee of the Missions to Seamen at a meeting held 8 Jun 1955, and sub-file of correspondence and copy minutes and extracts relating to the formation of the Merchant Navy Welfare Board in 1947. Includes references to: grants re Yokohama, Dar-es-Salaam, Townsville, Whyalla, Sharpness, Glasgow, Santos, Amsterdam, Vancouver, Lourenco Marques, Walvis Bay, Beira, Colombo in 1955; Seamen's Welfare Board and drink in institutes, 1940; welfare officers to be appointed in 7 ports in the British Isles in places where voluntary societies work was considered inadequate by the Seamen's Welfare Board, 1940; establishment of a committee for neutral and allied shipping, 1940; Representative Council of Seamen's Missions and Sailors' Homes, 1940; supplies of chocolate, tobacco and cigarettes to canteens, 1941; Mr Haigh appointed as Port Welfare Officer for the Port of London, 1941; representation on London and Glasgow Port Welfare Committees, 1941; overseas work in Kingston, Jamaica, Takaradi, Sekondi, 1941; Port Welfare Officers appointed at Leith, Glasgow, Bristol, Hull, Cardiff and Newcastle, 1941; invitation to submit evidence to a committee on seamen's welfare, 1944; Graham White Report, 1945; meeting of voluntary organisations called by the Minister of Transport as result of the Graham White Report, 1946; London Branch of the Norwegian Red Cross Society closing, 1946; letter of Seamen's Union leaders outlining their desire for clear distinction between temporal and spiritual welfare, but that they wished for chaplains to have full access to ships and institutes in ports, 1946; meeting with the Maritime Board at Cunard House, 1946; draft constitution for the Merchant Navy Welfare Board, 1947; the society to join the proposed Welfare Board, 1947; the society's problems with the Memorandum of Association of the Welfare Board, 1948; Welfare Board to undertake the management of purely secular clubs and institutes in ports, 1948; first meeting of the Appeals Panel of the Merchant Navy Welfare Board, Oct 1948; Christmas message from the Merchant Navy Welfare Board to be displayed in all of the society's buildings, 1948; report on hostel charges to be submitted, 1949; meetings of the Overseas Panel of the Merchant Navy Welfare Board 1950 onwards with references to individual ports; grants given by the Welfare Board to the society for various specified purposes 1950 onwards; representatives to be sent to a Welfare Board Conference discussed 1960; opening of new Merchant Navy Hotel in Southampton, 1963, financial situation of the Welfare Board, 1973.
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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)