Dr Ashley's Pleasure Yacht

John Ashley, the Bristol Channel Mission and all that Followed

AvRobert Miller

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

The story of John Ashley, the 19th-century priest who founded the Bristol Channel Mission, the innovative maritime service that became the Mission to Seafarers.Institutional foundation stories have a tendency to change and develop with the passage of time and much repetition. Maritime social historian R.W.H. Miller here explores the life of The Rev. John Ashley and his association with the foundation story of the Mission to Seafarers, the work of which society is much admired by its present Patron, HRH the Princess Royal. The traditional story is that Ashley's son, out walking by the Bristol Channel with his father, in the early 1830s, asked how the islanders could go to church. Ashley went to see, and from the islands of Flat Holm and Steep Holm seeing large fleets of wind bound ships, asked himself the same question. He used his own money (deriving mainly from the trade of sugar and slaves) to build a schooner, which he sailed in all weathers to provide an answer, in the process creating for himself a place in the ancestry of several Anglican and Catholic societies, of which the Mission to Seafarers, the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, and the Apostleship of the Sea, continue to provide seafarers with a valued and often heroic service.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-01-26
Mått:155 x 233 x 9 mm
Vikt:267 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lutterworth Press
Antal sidor:166
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9780718894504

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R.W.H. Miller, currently a Catholic priest in the west of England, has been a long-time student of Maritime Social History and member of the Society for Nautical Research and the International Maritime Economic History Association. He has worked for both the Missions to Seamen and the Apostleship of the Sea. He is the author of Priest in Deep Water (2010) and One Firm Anchor (2013), also published by The Lutterworth Press.

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I have been familiar for many years with Dr Miller's work on the history of the Church and the merchant seafarer. Dr Ashley's Pleasure Yacht uncovers the life of a nineteenth-century clergyman, John Ashley, a man with private means deriving from family sugar estates in Jamaica, makes some surprising discoveries. As Ashley is often claimed as the founder of the Mission to Seafarers, the story of his work visiting wind-bound ships in the Bristol Channel has been told often. Less well known is a major disagreement with his committee and what followed.

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AcknowledgementsPrefaceForeword by Michael FoleyAbbreviationsIllustrationsChapter One Who was John Ashley?His ParentsHis Early YearsAfter SchoolIndefatigable CurateWith QualificationsChapter Two John Ashley Discovers a NeedA Pleasure Yacht for Dr AshleyChapter Three John Ashley and his CommitteeJohn Ashley States his CaseChapter Four The Bristol Channel Mission: Lame Duck or Phoenix?Chapter Five John Ashley and The Missions to SeamenNegotiations with the Bristol Channel MissionChapter Six Dr Ashley's later yearsJohn Ashley Leaving the Church of England?Chapter Seven Ashley in Context: Early Modern Seamen's MissionsThe Bible and Tract SocietiesG.C. SmithAnd what of Bristol?London Episcopal Floating Church SocietyLiverpool Mariners' Church SocietyConclusionWhat has been Achieved?Ashley's FaithThe ContradictionsAppendix One John Ashley: An InspirationAppendix Two Dr Ashley: An Indirect InspirationAppendix Three Dr Ashley's SiblingsAppendix Four Dr Ashley, his Wife and ChildrenBibliographyIndex