Prayer Blankets for Seafarers
At their annual Sea Sunday at St.Faith's (an Anglican-Methodist Local Ecumenical Partnership) ) Gillian and Andy Hiles from the Port of King's Lynn in Norfolk heard a talk describing the voyage of a ship carrying a container of tea from Colombo in Sri Lanka to Felixstowe via Gibraltar. As a consequence, the congregation also made a special collection for the Mission to Seafarers.
A group within the congregation - the St. Faith's Prayer Shawl Ministry makes shawls and scarves with love and prayer to celebrate, thank and console. The group been going for over four years and its 21 members have produced over 500 scarves and shawls. Gillian and Andy very kindly brought the Gibraltar Ecumenical Seafarer’s Chaplains a selection of prayer scarves as a gift for the Gibraltar Chaplains and the seafarers to whom they minister. Andy and Gillian are shown here presenting the scarves to Rev Fidel Patron (Sailors Society) and Rev Andrew Jacobson (Mediterranean Mission to Seafarers). Plaque for Gibraltar Seafarer UnveiledOn 17th September 2014 the widow of a seafarer from Gibraltar unveiled a plaque in his memory outside the Flying Angel Club on the North Mole. David Pickup was killed following an explosion aboard the BRUNITO on Tuesday 14th October 1996. Many of his former colleagues attended the ceremony along with the Captain of the Port and members of the Gibraltar Port Welfare Committee.
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Gibraltar Port Chaplain's interview with GBC on the work of Mediterranean Mission to Seafarers in Gibraltar.
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Visit of Canon Huw Mosford, Director of Chaplaincy Mission to Seafarers
Canon Huw Mosford visited the Mediterranean Mission to Seafarers (MMSF) Flying Angel Club and Gibraltar Port Authority on Wednesday 8th May 2013 and met members of the MMSF Committee, Flying Angel Club staff and customers.
Merchant Navy Medal awarded to Gibraltarian Seafarers
The Merchant Navy Medal is awarded, without bias towards age or rank, to those eligible seafarerswho are judged to have made a worthwhile contribution to merchant shipping, its operations, development, personnel, welfare or safety, or who have performed an act of courage afloat.This year five seafarers from Gibraltar will be awarded the medal.
On the 14th February 2013, four crewmen from the tug Egerton, operated by TP Towage, received the medal for their bravery during the port explosion last year.The barge was berthed against the Western Arm next to the sullage tank that exploded, just metres from the wall of flame that spewed from the steel structure. The fear was that the heat from the tank could set alight the fuel on the barge, creating an additional problem on the water. The Egerton’s manoeuvred alongside and jumped on board to cut mooring lines before towing the barge to safety. Skipper Douglas Pincho, brothers Wayne and Tommy Peñalver and engineer Ernest Lara braved intense heat to tow away a fuel-laden barge that was at risk of explosion.
The Chairman of the Gibraltar Port Welfare Committee James Ferro MBE was also awarded the Merchant Navy Medal. Mr Ferro is being recognised for his services to the committee and to Seafarers in Gibraltar.
Media Coverage: Gibraltar Chronicle
On the 14th February 2013, four crewmen from the tug Egerton, operated by TP Towage, received the medal for their bravery during the port explosion last year.The barge was berthed against the Western Arm next to the sullage tank that exploded, just metres from the wall of flame that spewed from the steel structure. The fear was that the heat from the tank could set alight the fuel on the barge, creating an additional problem on the water. The Egerton’s manoeuvred alongside and jumped on board to cut mooring lines before towing the barge to safety. Skipper Douglas Pincho, brothers Wayne and Tommy Peñalver and engineer Ernest Lara braved intense heat to tow away a fuel-laden barge that was at risk of explosion.
The Chairman of the Gibraltar Port Welfare Committee James Ferro MBE was also awarded the Merchant Navy Medal. Mr Ferro is being recognised for his services to the committee and to Seafarers in Gibraltar.
Media Coverage: Gibraltar Chronicle
