The half hour “Fifty Nine Steps to the Crow’s Nest” documentary tells the story of the “Crow’s Nest” merchant navy officers bar in downtown St. John’s. It is a fantastic film about a piece of St. John’s history, but, more importantly, a tribute to the memory of merchant mariners of World War II. Thanks to…
Article notice – Thomas Cave Childs: Pioneer chaplain to female emigrants and the Missions to Seamen
Fr. Robert Miller has published a new article on an important early figure in maritime ministry in The Mariner’s Mirror journal. Miller, long a member of the Society for Nautical Research, has published several books on the work of the church and the merchant seafarer from the earliest Christian centuries until the nineteenth century. He…