Committee for the Relief of Distressed Seamen: correspondence from the Admiralty in 1818–19. Issue 975 (31st January 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cook, G C
• Is Part Of: Postgraduate medical journal. Volume 83:Issue 975(2007)
• Page Start: 54
• Page End: 58
• Publication Date: 2007-01-31
• Subjects: CRDS, Committee for the Relief of Distressed Seamen -- SHS, Seamen's Hospital Society; history -- seamen -- Admiralty; Medicine -- Periodicals; 610
• DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2006.054296
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0032-5473

Abstract

Abstract : The Seamen's Hospital Society, which was to become a great Victorian charity, with the object of caring for both the physical and spiritual health of seafarers (most merchant seamen) in the Port of London, was founded at a meeting on 8 March 1821. However, it is not widely known that it had a temporary predecessor— The Committee for the Relief of Distressed (Destitute) Seamen . Ready cooperation was received from the Admiralty in most of its affairs, but "disposal" of many of these "redundant" mariners proved to be a somewhat difficult matter.