Corporate Open DS/UK/4554 Sailors' Society; 1818-; British Christian charity for sailors Sailors' Society 1818- British Christian charity for sailors Port of London Society | The British & Foreign Sailors’ Society | The British Sailors’ Society (from 1925) | The British & International Sailors’ Society (From 1995)

Health / Welfare; Charity Sailors’ Society is an inter-denominational Christian organisation providing pastoral care to seafarers. The Society was formed on 18 March 1818, as the Port of London Society. Following mergers with two other societies, the name was changed to The British & Foreign Sailors’ Society. In 1925 it was changed to The British Sailors’ Society. In 1995 the name was changed to The British & International Sailors’ Society. The most recent name change took place on 1 December 2007 when the present name was adopted. The Society is an interdenominational charity and has close links with many of the mainstream Protestant Churches in the UK, such as the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Church of Scotland, United Reformed Church, Methodist Church in Great Britain. The headquarters are at 350 Shirley Road, Southampton, England. The Society is international and in addition to its presence in the UK it operates in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Curaçao, Ghana, Réunion, Russia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, the Philippines and the Ukraine. The Society has port chaplains and seafarers' welfare centres at various ports around the world. It also has one retirement home - in Greenock, Scotland. Within the UK the Society has a presence at Aberdeen, Arbroath, Dundee, Felixstowe, Grangemouth, Leith (port of Edinburgh), Manchester Ship Canal, Milford Haven, Montrose, Portland, Dorset, Port Talbot and South Wales Ports, Portbury (near Bristol), Seaham (County Durham), Southampton and the Wirral (Mersey). In New Zealand, an independent Society, the International Sailors Society New Zealand Incorporated, co-ordinates the activities of six independent seafarers' welfare organisations (all registered charities) in the ports of Auckland, Bluff, Dunedin (Otago), New Plymouth (Taranaki), Bay of Plenty (Mt Maunganui) and (since 2011) Wellington. Another in Lyttelton recently (2009) went into recess. The Sailors Society in New Zealand is linked to the Sailors Society (UK) but is self-governing and self-supporting. Independent bodies, similarly linked to the UK, also exist in South Africa and Canada. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 2/25/2013 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 86fe5973-f786-43b4-9f19-a568172f9bfe