File. British Sailors' Society

Reference No:
U DMS/4/32
Dates:
28 Jan 1975-21 Sep 1982
Description:
File containing extracts from minutes of meetings relating to the British Sailors' Society 1975-1982, press cutting advertising the British Sailors' Society, correspondence of Reverend E.J. Wilson-Hughes as Assistant General Secretary (Ministry) and Reverend T.P. Kerfoot and Reverend W.J.D. Down as General Secretaries for the Missions to Seamen with Commander John Hough as General Secretary of the British Sailors' Society and other contacts re co-operation between by both societies. Includes references to: Plymouth Project; Prayers for Unity 1975; joint funding of the Reverend Ping Nam Ng's chaplaincy; position in Durban and Port Elizabeth; Fremantle chaplaincy; decision of the British Sailors' Society to close the Par club; alterations to how the two societies might meet regularly; York Minster Sea Sunday service arranged for 1976; co-operation dependent upon local personnel in port; Western Australia; Port Hedland; sharing of costs of air fare for the wife of a chaplain to return to the UK from Perth; West Dock, Bristol; Seafarers' Trust and Fremantle; St Austell with Fowey; Rotterdam; Hamburg; efforts towards joint fundraising; sale of King Edward VII Hall, Commercial Road, London, by the British Sailors' Society; retirements; Richards Bay; sale of Athlone House by the Missions to Seamen; dispute over an advertisment placed by the British Sailors' Society in 'The Lady' and 'The Church Times' in 1977.
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)