Save the South Shields Mission to Seafarers Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/save-the-south-shields-mission-to-seafarers.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:49 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition douglas wallace [Signature #189] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8947348?utm_medium=rss sorry i am late but saw the news about the last meeting of the russian convoys in the paper today i being one of them shields born and sailed from the mill dam it was the mission that did a lot for us my stepfarther was also on the russian run.he took me to the mission when i was young boy the arabswere alwas nice ro me. DOUG s/s empire tourist

]]> Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:06:28 UTC 8947348 davy arkley [Signature #188] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6875910?utm_medium=rss Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:24:17 UTC 6875910 Tony Downey [Signature #187] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6840786?utm_medium=rss Gives First Class Service To The Merchant Navy

]]> Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:22:39 UTC 6840786 Maria Staal [Signature #186] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6176161?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:17:54 UTC 6176161 Chris Hoddinott [Signature #185] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6129716?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:52:23 UTC 6129716 clive suthern [Signature #184] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6124870?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:31:04 UTC 6124870 Che Zion Won [Signature #183] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6122089?utm_medium=rss I have been a seafarer twice for the past, the Missions to Seafarers has been part of our Life Line! I've retired from sea service and am now on land as a research associate in a university; yet I volunteer one day in a week on ship visits to serve my seamen brothers in the Mission To Seamen in Hongkong. I of course would not like to see the demise of our fraternal association in the Shields to come down!!
Che O' Hongkong!

]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:01:00 UTC 6122089 Arthur Baker [Signature #182] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6118749?utm_medium=rss This centre for seamen is much to valuable resource to be lost.

]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:09:00 UTC 6118749 Alf Dadswell [Signature #181] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6107940?utm_medium=rss Less we forget, South Shields lost the most MN seamen in WWII throughout the UK, is there no loyalty left in the UK. ex seaman

]]> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:42:43 UTC 6107940 christopher wenden [Signature #180] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6099743?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:23:10 UTC 6099743 angus baskerville [Signature #179] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6090274?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:42:12 UTC 6090274 GEOFF SYMONDS [Signature #178] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6085509?utm_medium=rss ON A 'MISSION' TO SAVE OUR SEAFARERS!!

]]> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:38:49 UTC 6085509 Ray Buck [Signature #177] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6074508?utm_medium=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:25:46 UTC 6074508 steve goldswain [Signature #176] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6074047?utm_medium=rss hi orig from south bank middlesbrough like all ex sea fairers have happy memories of the flying tab nab south shields is no exception and is a very importent place for forign seamen

]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:25:32 UTC 6074047 Thomas Purdy [Signature #175] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6071599?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:48:44 UTC 6071599 Yvonne Purdy [Signature #174] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6068816?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:54:43 UTC 6068816 Kevin Murphy [Signature #173] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6063902?utm_medium=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:04:11 UTC 6063902 Chris Iley [Signature #172] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6063373?utm_medium=rss Save our Mission

]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:05:01 UTC 6063373 ALAN NICHOLS [Signature #171] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6063075?utm_medium=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:04:20 UTC 6063075 Tom Lloyd [Signature #170] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6063049?utm_medium=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:56:43 UTC 6063049 Brian Matthews [Signature #169] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6061869?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:46:35 UTC 6061869 Anonymous [Signature #168] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6061144?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:55:39 UTC 6061144 Craig Amess [Signature #167] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6061076?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:29:40 UTC 6061076 steve hurst [Signature #166] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6059579?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:40:42 UTC 6059579 Robert Skeldon [Signature #165] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6059099?utm_medium=rss It is an essential facility for seafaring community

]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:37:08 UTC 6059099 John Brunton [Signature #164] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6057394?utm_medium=rss Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:02:13 UTC 6057394 Anita Watson [Signature #163] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6055888?utm_medium=rss Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:39:03 UTC 6055888 Adrian Tennet [Signature #162] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6053918?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:11:43 UTC 6053918 Thomas Bailey [Signature #161] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6053804?utm_medium=rss From North Shields and spent many happy hours in the mission. It has been a refuge for many seafarers and a happy place.

]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:47:45 UTC 6053804 colin oates [Signature #160] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6053624?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:57:24 UTC 6053624 kenny dick [Signature #159] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6053123?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:39:54 UTC 6053123 ASHLEIGH JAMES [Signature #158] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6053063?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:20:28 UTC 6053063 Allan Ball [Signature #157] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6052486?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:50:12 UTC 6052486 russell brown [Signature #156] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6052244?utm_medium=rss dont let this happen

]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:37:11 UTC 6052244 Muriel Screaton [Signature #155] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6052238?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:35:00 UTC 6052238 Helen Brown [Signature #154] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6052200?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:13:44 UTC 6052200 David Toshack [Signature #153] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6052136?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:56:11 UTC 6052136 Rick Vince [Signature #152] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6052099?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:45:51 UTC 6052099 Alan Rogers [Signature #151] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6052077?utm_medium=rss South Shields Mission to Seafarers represents more than just an important part of South Tyneside's maritime history.

It is a living Memorial to the memory of the seafaring community upon which the town of South Shields was built.

The Mission Chapel should always remain open for the public to give thanks and pay their respects.

Many merchant seamen lost their lives in two world wars and that makes South Shields Mission to Seafarers a local War Memorial. We must fight to keep it open!

]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:39:09 UTC 6052077 Ray McCerery [Signature #150] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6052044?utm_medium=rss We must have a place for the seafarer to go, remember the Missions Motto DUTY OF CARE what care if we have no station.

Ray

]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:27:13 UTC 6052044 Terry Manning [Signature #149] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6052034?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:24:58 UTC 6052034 ian mundie [Signature #148] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6051780?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:52:58 UTC 6051780 David Tink [Signature #147] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6051632?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:49:29 UTC 6051632 amy stephenson [Signature #146] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6051486?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:55:23 UTC 6051486 richard fawcett [Signature #145] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049964?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:53:06 UTC 6049964 Pauline Hunt [Signature #144] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049859?utm_medium=rss I was married in the mission chapel in August 2002, my husband serves in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and we often visit the mission when he is home on leave, to lose this piece of our heritage would be disasterous. Recently the Mission helped us to carry out my father in laws final wish, which was to have his ashes scattered at sea, having been a seafarer for the greater part of his life, without the missions help, we would not have been able to achieve this.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:23:43 UTC 6049859 sarah rogers [Signature #143] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049851?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:20:40 UTC 6049851 Alan Robson MBE [Signature #142] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049792?utm_medium=rss It is shameful that something so vital is taken away.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:05:24 UTC 6049792 denis gladstone [Signature #141] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049601?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:15:37 UTC 6049601 Ambrose Jones [Signature #140] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049342?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:08:13 UTC 6049342 Thomas James Mather [Signature #139] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049336?utm_medium=rss I had heard about this through my brother and I was saddened as we had spent many evenings there with our father and his friend (both ex seamen). I have a friend who was lost at sea and his memory lives on there on one of the copper plates in the chapel. I am happy to sign the petition and hopefully some good will come of it. If the worst should come and it is decided to close the mission my father's friend had suggested that at least the local museum should step in & save this towns history.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:06:29 UTC 6049336 Simon Pryde [Signature #138] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049332?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:05:59 UTC 6049332 Kerry Clift [Signature #137] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049282?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:53:25 UTC 6049282 Dave Brown [Signature #136] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049280?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:52:07 UTC 6049280 Aaron Tearle [Signature #135] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6048907?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:11:51 UTC 6048907 Alasdair McCulloch [Signature #134] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6048199?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:01:13 UTC 6048199 William Keough [Signature #133] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6048172?utm_medium=rss I was with Stag Line North Shields and spent many a happy hour in the Mission when ny ship was in dry-dock in the Tyne. I spent two weeks living in the Mission in November 1964 while waiting for a new ship being built in Sunderland

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:54:30 UTC 6048172 Matthew Dann [Signature #132] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6048068?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:23:27 UTC 6048068 ALAN WOOD [Signature #131] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047994?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:59:16 UTC 6047994 Nicholas Majer [Signature #130] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047977?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:53:24 UTC 6047977 Raymond Wickman [Signature #129] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047975?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:52:54 UTC 6047975 David Robinson [Signature #128] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047966?utm_medium=rss Please include my as part of this important petition !!!

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:50:42 UTC 6047966 Andrew West [Signature #127] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047953?utm_medium=rss Again London is making a decision about the North East, this has stoody for 150 years and should remain it is part of our heritage.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:46:27 UTC 6047953 Deanne Dixon [Signature #126] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047909?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:32:29 UTC 6047909 Anonymous [Signature #125] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047902?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:30:24 UTC 6047902 Jim McWilliams [Signature #124] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047840?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:11:56 UTC 6047840 Brian Twyman [Signature #123] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047758?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:47:53 UTC 6047758 Neil Reeves [Signature #122] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047710?utm_medium=rss Please help save what community life is left in this Country for the people of this country.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:34:33 UTC 6047710 Wraith Joanna [Signature #121] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047621?utm_medium=rss The seamans mission is a very special place to me and my family. My father, grandad, uncles and cousins past and present are all sea men. It has been a place of memories for me and my sisters of times with our dad, a place to reflect after the loss of someone close and times of celebration like family christening.Please help save the mission its such a beautiful and historic place, I could never imagine it not being there.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:02:21 UTC 6047621 Jenny Eells [Signature #120] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047595?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:52:35 UTC 6047595 Pamela A?llen [Signature #119] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047583?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:49:21 UTC 6047583 Anonymous [Signature #118] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047548?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:38:13 UTC 6047548 Mark Thorburn [Signature #117] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047538?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:35:54 UTC 6047538 Mark Hubbard [Signature #116] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047519?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:30:06 UTC 6047519 rachel kershaw [Signature #115] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047503?utm_medium=rss Please don't close it - it's our history!

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:26:37 UTC 6047503 Gemma johnson [Signature #114] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047496?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:25:26 UTC 6047496 Joe Rafferty [Signature #113] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047492?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:23:42 UTC 6047492 Erin Le Quelenec [Signature #112] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047491?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:23:35 UTC 6047491 Matt Bailey [Signature #111] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047487?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:23:02 UTC 6047487 Erin Rhodes [Signature #110] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047479?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:21:08 UTC 6047479 Clifford Rhodes [Signature #109] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047475?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:20:29 UTC 6047475 Andy Reid [Signature #108] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047474?utm_medium=rss Don't make Helen's nana cry!!

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:20:16 UTC 6047474 Nicola Hunter [Signature #107] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047469?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:19:35 UTC 6047469 Ian Thompson [Signature #106] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047460?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:18:53 UTC 6047460 Iris Bays [Signature #105] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047458?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:18:37 UTC 6047458 Ron Rushbrooke [Signature #104] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047424?utm_medium=rss In addition to being helpful to ships' crews in the Tyne this is a service used by the hundreds of retired seamen in the area as a meeting place for meals, refreshment, meeting serving seamen and keeping updated on modern ship operating as well as imparting their experience to younger people joining the Merchant Navy.
It would be a well loved and valuable Mission lost to the area and to the substantial number of retired mariners who use it.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:58:06 UTC 6047424 Jeremy Tyson [Signature #103] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6047042?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:12:37 UTC 6047042 Patrick McCardle [Signature #102] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6046976?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:54:34 UTC 6046976 Michael Kearney [Signature #101] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6046705?utm_medium=rss Besides appreciating the work of the Flying Angel throughout the world as a seafarer, my family were involved in South Shields Mission to Seamen between the end of WW2 and the early 50's so I know a litttle of the sterling work that Mission has achieved. It would be a sad loss to the town and the seafaring world.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:29:49 UTC 6046705 CLIVE WELCH [Signature #100] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045837?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:28:44 UTC 6045837 David James [Signature #99] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045771?utm_medium=rss Visited there in 1947

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:00:53 UTC 6045771 alan Mason [Signature #98] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045633?utm_medium=rss having been to sea and enjoyed the missions abroad it would be a shame to lose the one in my home town

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:11:17 UTC 6045633 Frank Pawlowski [Signature #97] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045530?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:39:17 UTC 6045530 colin curtis [Signature #96] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045502?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:30:17 UTC 6045502 Mike Parkin [Signature #95] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045461?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:18:01 UTC 6045461 Mark Byers [Signature #94] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045421?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:06:41 UTC 6045421 Jeff Bulmer [Signature #93] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045374?utm_medium=rss Although I no longer live in South Shields it is my home town and I am a former merchant seaman.

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:52:58 UTC 6045374 peter cowling [Signature #92] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045355?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:49:25 UTC 6045355 john brooks [Signature #91] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045304?utm_medium=rss I am an ex seafarer and spent 45 years at sea. The value of a Mission to seaman can never be quantified. Every seafarer I ever knew respected the Mission padre and for so many including myself, he was there when desperation struck. Please reconsider your decision to close this "haven". Put youself in the position of a seaman who has no-one else to turn to.

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:41:03 UTC 6045304 Steven Kidby [Signature #90] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6045261?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:29:05 UTC 6045261