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All at sea – charity helps children stay learning on remote islets
March 2021
It’s home learning, but not as we know it. As children in the UK wave goodbye to home school this World Book Day (March 4), hundreds of pupils in the ...
The Herald of Free Enterprise disaster – in remembrance
March 2021
Friday, March 6 1987, saw one of the worst maritime disasters in living memory when the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off the Belgian coast on th...
The Neptune Declaration: why we're calling on Governments to support our seafarers
February 2021
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues its devastating impact, Sailors' Society's CEO Sara Baade highlights why we've joined more than 400 companies to si...
Swire Pacific Offshore commits to aid seafarers through Sailors’ Society donation
January 2021
Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) has donated $25,000 (USD) to maritime charity Sailors’ Society, demonstrating its continued commitment to supporting seaf...
SANTA OF THE SEA DELIVERS CHRISTMAS TO CRUISE WORKERS LOCKED DOWN AT SEA
December 2020
Sailors’ Society’s Southampton seafarer centre manager Simon Mobsby delivering gifts to a cruise ship at Southampton port.Charity worker Simon Mobsby ...
December 2020
Innovative ‘Ship Connect’ takes helpline support to another levelSailors’ Society, one of the largest seafarer welfare charities in the world, is prov...
Sailors’ Society welcomes new Southampton port chaplain
November 2020
International maritime welfare charity Sailors’ Society has announced the appointment of Revd Frans Sahetapy as its Southampton port chaplain. Frans, ...
October 2020
Attacks on ships can be “utterly terrifying” for the seafarers involved, Sailors’ Society CEO Sara Baade has said, following an incident off the Isle ...
September 2020
Are they alive? Three weeks after 40 seafarers vanished at sea when a typhoon destroyed their ship, not knowing is tearing their loved ones apart, say...
450 seafarers quarantined on board for weeks amid COVID outbreak on ships
September 2020
Sailors’ Society delivers medicine to desperate crew off Indian islandA suspected coronavirus outbreak on 20 ships off the coast of a tiny Indian isla...
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