BRITISH SAILORS’ SOCIETY
A CHANGE OF NAME. The Christmas number of the "Chart and Compass,” the official organ of the British Sailors’ Society, states that the society will henceforth bo known as "The British Sailors’ Society at Home and Abroad,” though the secondary part of the title will be used on formal and official matters only. "The new name will, it is hoped,” states the journal, tend to clear away certain misconceptions which have arisen about the loriner name, one of which has been that the society is not an entirely British society, but one which is directed and controlled by an international group of philanthropists interested in the well-being of seamen. The society is entirely British in origin and has for 107 years continued as a British organisation and is British today. It has subscribers in many foreign countries who are glad t-i recognise that no genuine sailor in distress, of wha-ever nation, is refused such servhe as can be rendered him —in the same . sen-e that no g. neral hospital shuts its doors in the face of a foreigner who has had a sei ions accident, nor does the lifeboat refuse tn go out into the storm to save life if the ship in ‘lunger is not sailing under the British flag. It is one of the most cherished traditions of Britishers that a person in distress, of whatever country, is a person to be helped. The society intends to maintain its own tradition of rendering ready service io seamen throughout Hie world, though it also wishes to emphasise its primary purpose as a British society is that of ministering to the spiritual and -material needs of British Seamen, both in home and foreign ports. We readily recognise and appreciate the fart. that, many of the nations with a mercantile marine service, do provide for the neols of their own seafaring men, and that when circumstances call for their lieln to sailors of other nations, it is readily given, and many British sailors have benefited thereby, and we, ns a British society, do what we can in return .to help when and where we can bo of service. There is a brotherhood of the sen. that extends world-wide and where there is ft need for service of the highest kind, and as far ns conditions permit, we do what we can. Me optical to all our friends for their support nnd interest, and wo bone th.nt the response will be such thnt the work which the society has carried on for 107 vpftrß so successfully and with such marked blessing from Him who is the Father of all men. may not: only bo maintained hut improved and extended under the new name.”
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 88, 8 January 1926, Page 13
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454BRITISH SAILORS’ SOCIETY Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 88, 8 January 1926, Page 13
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