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The Mission to Seafarers operates two clubs in Hong Kong for the use of visiting and locally registered seafarers. One in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui and the other near the Container Port at Kwai Chung. The club in Tsim Sha Tsui offers accommodation for seafarers, including a limited number of en-suite family rooms. A full laundry service is available. Both clubs boast excellent Bar and Dining facilities and for sports enthusiasts all bars have satellite TV. Other leisure pursuits provided are darts and laser disc films (the latter on request), Table Tennis, Pool Table. The Tsim Sha Tsui club also offers a beautiful outdoor Swimming Pool and a very popular full scale Ten Pin Bowling Alley. There are social functions such as poolside BBQs and a Sunday Night Disco for seafarers. Other amenities include international postal and telephone services, e-mail, Internet and Gents Hairdresser. Both clubs have Chapels and at St. Peter's at Tsim Sha Tsui regular Anglican and Roman Catholic services are held. The clubs are backed up with the ministry of the Chaplains and a welfare service provided by a fully trained Social Worker.

HISTORY: The Missions to Seamen, an Anglican missionary society was founded in Cardiff, S. Wales in 1856, and under its new title "The Mission to Seafarers" provides a ministry to seafarers in over two hundred ports around the world. The Flying Angel Flag was first raised in Hong Kong in 1885. In 1967 a new twelve storey building was opened in Kowloon, which was followed by the construction of a smaller club at the Kwai Chung Container port in 1975. In 1969 the Roman Catholic Apostleship of the Sea (Stella Maris) joined us in association, followed by the Danish Seamen's Church in 1981 and the German Seamen's Mission in 1995.

TSIM SHA TSUI - MARINERS'CLUB 11 Middle Road, Kowloon - Hong Kong Tel: 2368 8261 Fax: 2366 0928 E-mail:mariners@netvigator.com