One of the highlights of our Scottish Branch year is attending the Sailors' Society Annual Scottish Service for Seafarers, which is held in South Leith Parish Church. We have been attending this service for many years and are also proud to be one of the official Wreath Layers taking part in the Wreath Laying Ceremony […]
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Annual Seafarers Service Glasgow
The Annual Seafarers Service in St Mungo’s Cathedral Glasgow will take place on Sunday 23rd October at 1100. The service, which is set in the context of the of the routine Sunday act of worship at the Cathedral, is intended as a celebration of our nation’s seafarers both past and present from the Royal Navy, […]
Merchant Navy Day
2nd September Glasgow City Council held their #MerchantNavyDay event and the Watch Ashore was proud to take part. As well as MN veterans and folk from various maritime interests, it was great to see the cadets from the City of Glasgow College Nautical Faculty. It was a short but poignant event with two of the […]
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Project Report 2016 The Watch Ashore has been supporting merchant navy families since 1933 and like most organisations it has seen its membership wane and decline, going from, in its’ heyday with hundreds of members and 16 branches throughout the UK, to now just five/six active branches. We were given a fantastic opportunity working with […]
Mission to Seafarers Annual Service
Myself (Sue Williams) as National Chairman and Christine Payne, National Vice Chairman, were honoured to represent the Watch Ashore at The Mission to Seafarers Annual Service held on 6th July at St Michael Paternoster Royal. It was a wonderful uplifting service with an excellent speaker, The Rt Revd, the Lord Eames, OM. Primate of All Ireland. […]
Seafarers Awareness Week
Again this year Watch Ashore members have been helping to promote Seafarers Awareness Week. Throughout the week various organisations have held events to raise awareness and we have been delighted to be involved. The Watch Ashore Plymouth members organised and manned displays in local libraries to raise awareness. Glasgow Branch assisted with the Seafarers UK bucket collection. The […]