Port of Bristol
Between 1801 and 1914, the Port of Bristol, located in Bristol and nearby Avonmouth, was a thriving site of shipbuilding and commerce, particularly benefitting from the engineering efforts of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Port of Hull
Hull is a significant port city which houses the archives of the Mission to Seafarers as well as local marine charities including the Hull Indian Seamen’s Home and floating chapels.
Port of Liverpool
Liverpool was the largest and most sophisticated of all Britain’s port cities. It incorporated numerous bethels, missions, and seamen’s homes serving the immense marine workforce of the Mersey.
Port of London
Throughout the long nineteenth-century London was a key sight for mission activity to Asian sailors. This included London Strangers’ Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders and the Society for the Protection of Asiatic Sailors.
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The marine mission movement touched almost every British and colonial port. This project focuses on just four port cities: Bristol, Liverpool, Hull and London.
The Floating Harbour, Bristol Charles Parsons Knight (1829–1897) Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
Between 1801 and 1914, the Port of Bristol, located in Bristol and nearby Avonmouth, was a thriving site of shipbuilding and commerce, particularly benefitting from the engineering efforts of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Humber Docks, Hull, John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).
Hull is a significant port city which houses the archives of the Mission to Seafarers as well as local marine charities including the Hull Indian Seamen’s Home and floating chapels.
Liverpool Docks (panel 5 of 5), John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1892, Grundy Art Gallery.
Liverpool was the largest and most sophisticated of all Britain’s port cities. It incorporated numerous bethels, missions, and seamen’s homes serving the immense marine workforce of the Mersey.
A Shipyard on the Thames, John Cleveley the elder, 1769. Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC).
Throughout the long nineteenth-century London was a key sight for mission activity to Asian sailors. This included London Strangers’ Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders and the Society for the Protection of Asiatic Sailors.
Featured Stories
In 1903, a new Japanese Seamen's Home was opened by the Bishop of Osaka at 31 Elizabeth Street, North Woolwich, near the Royal Albert Docks.
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.