Appeal on behalf of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen by Sir W. Wavell Wakefield, M.P.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Sir W. Wavell Wake field, m.p., Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, [address removed]
The awakening of the national conscience in the late nineteenth century gave birth to several notable philanthropic organisations. One of the most needed was the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. From Labrador and Iceland to the North Sea, its fourteen medical mission ships served the fishermen of all nationalities, setting a pattern which governments were later to follow.
Although conditions have vastly improved since then, the hazards of a fisherman's life remain constant. So too does the spiritual and social welfare work of the Mission's superintendents in all the principal fishing ports from the Shetland Islands to Cornwall-and even beyond the Arctic Circle.