Post by Administrator on Apr 23, 2020 3:51:45 GMT
The Missions to Seamen (now the Mission to Seafarers) was founded in the 1850s to provide a place for sailors to worship and relax while they waited for their ships to sail home. It had its roots in the work of the Revd John Ashley who in the 1830s visited ships in the Bristol Channel and felt there was a need to provide services to the seafarers.
Cardiff's Mission to Seamen occupied a number of different buildings over the years. In 1863, an old frigate ‘The Thisbe’ was moored at Cardiff docks with a chapel and reading room and in the 1960s a caravan at Roath Basin was its home
Museum of Cardiff