• Mission to Seafarers nominated for industry awards

    The Mission to Seafarers is excited to announce that we have been nominated and shortlisted for two industry awards - The Safety4Sea Initiative Award for our work on The Happiness Index and The Safety at Sea Shoreside Award. Read more

The Mission to Seafarers provides help and support to the 1.5 million crewmen and women who face danger every day to keep our global economy afloat.

We work in over 200 ports caring for seafarers of all ranks, nationalities and beliefs. Through our global network of Chaplains, Staff and Volunteers we offer practical, emotional and spiritual support to seafarers through ship-visits, Flying Angel seafarers' centres and a range of welfare and emergency support services.

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Knitting for Seafarers

Seafarers travel all over the world, often in chilly locations and rely on the warmth knitters and supporters provide by knitting woolly hats and scarves.

Mission impact

Our 200 ports regularly send us information and statistics on their local welfare work...

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Over 90% of world trade is carried by the sea, providing work for the world's 1.5 million seafarers...

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  • Port Giles Alfresco Seafarers' Centre

    On Sunday 9 September, over 60 people from around the tiny community of Edithburgh on the Southern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, gathered at the Flying Angel Centre for the blessing and opening of an alfresco, outdoor kitchen and memorial garden. Read more

  • Seafarers call for human resource management in the latest Seafarers' Happiness Index

    Seafarers from across the world have responded to the latest Seafarers Happiness Index. In answering questions about their lives at sea, they have called for ship owners, operators and managers to have designated human resource management in place to address concerns and to reflect the growing appreciation and importance of seafarer mental health and wellbeing on board and at sea. Read more

  • Seafarer welfare to be placed at the heart of SMM

    SMM Hamburg has placed seafarer welfare at the centre of its exhibition this week, by choosing The Mission to Seafarers (MtS) as its official event charity, with Deutsche Seemannsmission. Read more

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