Mission to Seafarers

The Mission to Seafarers is the Anglican seafarers’ welfare society founded in 1856, running seafarer centers and ship-visiting chaplaincy in over 200 ports worldwide under its flying-angel emblem. It provides practical help, communications, transport, and pastoral care to crews of all faiths and none, and is one of the welfare bodies whose work the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 recognizes in its shore-welfare provisions. It operates alongside the Catholic Stella Maris and the interdenominational Sailors’ Society.