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Interview with MtS (Mission to Seafarers) Chaplain Widow, on 23 January 2026. She lived in Beira, Mozambique and Glasgow.

Interview with MtS (Mission to Seafarers) Chaplain Widow on 16 February 2026. She lived in Busan (Korea), Port Saïd (Egypt), Dubai and Colombo (Sri Lanka) with her husband from 1977 to 1993.

Women have contributed in many significant ways to the work of missions to seafarers. Marine industries were and are isolating and dangerous, and the risks were endured by families at home as well as those at sea. Women and children were associated with marine missions initially as subjects of charity, but by the 20th century they were playing a more assertive role.

Biography of Dame Agnes Weston