On Monday 19 November, the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society welcomed the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Councillor Lee Mason and the Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, Councillor David Down, to its Chichester head office for the first time since their appointments as ex-officio Vice-Presidents of the charity.
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The Grants Manager of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society has raised more than £1,400 for the organisation, having completed Sunday’s gruelling London Marathon.
Sami Raeburn, who lives in Brighton, completed the course in the hottest marathon on record in five hours and 12 minutes, comfortably surpassing her £1,000 fundraising target in the process.
On her achievement, Sami said: “I am so proud to be able to say I completed the marathon and especially for such an important cause.
“The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society carries out amazing work in providing financial and practical assistance to seafarers and their dependants in need. Thanks to everyone who sponsored me, the charity will be able to significantly impact the lives of those who need it most.”
Since 1839, the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society has provided financial and practical help, assistance and advice to fishermen and mariners and their dependants who have suffered hardship, misfortune or poverty, as a result of being at sea or on retirement.
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The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’ Royal Benevolent Society (Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society) has appointed Captain Justin Osmond RN as its new Chief Executive.
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The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society’s Grants Manager, Samantha (Sami) Raeburn, is preparing for a big challenge in 2018 as she trains to take part in the London Marathon on 22 April.
The Chief Executive of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, Commodore Malcolm Williams, has had his say on the Government’s failure to reduce the wait for initial Universal Credit payments, in Monday’s Daily Telegraph (November 27).
Source: Daily Telegraph
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On this day, 28th May 1852, at the Society’s Annual General Meeting held at Willis’s Rooms, St. James’s, London, Thomson Hankey, Junr., Esq., Governor of the Bank of England, was appointed Treasurer: an office he held for 26 years until 1878.
The Chief Executive of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, Commodore Malcolm Williams, has had his say on energy companies and their relationship with older customers, in the latest edition of the Sunday Telegraph (April 30).
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The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society has welcomed its new President Admiral Sir George Zambellas GCB, DSC, DL, FRAeS to its Chichester headquarters to see staff at work and attend a grants meeting to learn more about support the Society gives to those facing financial difficulties in the retired and serving seafaring community.
Admiral Sir George completed thirty-five years service in the Royal Navy as First Sea Lord in April 2016. His first appointments were as a helicopter pilot in frigates and carriers before commanding the mine hunter HMS CATTISTOCK, and the frigates HMS ARGYLL and HMS CHATHAM. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross in command of HMS CHATHAM in 2000 for Operation Palliser off Sierra Leone. As Amphibious Force Commander he led the maritime force that conducted evacuation operations off Beirut in 2006.
Ashore he held a number of senior positions including private secretary to two Chiefs of the Defence Staff and Chief of Staff (Operations) at the UK Joint Headquarters. He became Commander-in-Chief Fleet in 2012. He is an Elder Brother of Trinity House, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.
During his visit to the Society Sir George said: “To take up the office of President for a maritime charity with such a distinguished history spanning 178 years was a great honour. My visit today has given me an even greater insight into the vital and much needed assistance the Society gives to those who have served in the merchant navy or in fishing, and their dependants, and who are now facing financial hardship.”
Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society Chief Executive, Commodore Malcolm Williams, said: “We are very fortunate to have Admiral Sir George as our 17th President following a long line of distinguished predecessors. He is a proven leader with an instinctive empathy for the fishermen, merchant mariners and their dependants whom the Charity supports.”
The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society has been serving the seafaring community for 178 years. Since 1839, the Society has provided financial and practical help and assistance to fishermen and mariners and their dependants suffering hardship, misfortune or poverty, as a result of shipwreck, accidents at sea, illness or during retirement.
Now in its 178th year, the Society continues to provide financial support to fishermen and mariners and their dependants. Last year grants were provided in over 2,000 cases of need at a cost of £1.4 million.
To find out more information about the Charity, visit the website at www.shipwreckedmariners.org.uk, the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/shipwreckedmariners or follow @ShipwreckedSoc on Twitter.
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