e/The Mission to Seafarers

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has gloss	eng: The Mission to Seafarers (formerly, The Missions to Seamen) is an international Anglican mission serving mariners and sailors in over 230 ports around the world. Its formal creation was in 1856 through the Church of England although the Mission had its roots in the earlier work of an Anglican priest, John Ashley who in 1835 was on the shore at Clevedon with his son who asked him how the people on Flat Holm could go to church. For the next three months Ashley voluntarily ministered to the population of the island. From there he recognised the needs of the seafarers on the four hundred sailing vessels in the Bristol Channel and created the Bristol Channel Mission. He raised funds and in 1839 a specially designed mission cutter was built with a main cabin which could be converted into a chapel for 100 people.
lexicalization	eng: The Mission to Seafarers
instance of	c/Christian missions to seafarers