{"id":1818,"date":"2023-01-13T21:55:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marereport.namma.org\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2023-11-14T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T18:52:19","slug":"book-review-a-century-at-kilindini-the-story-of-mombasas-mission-to-seafarers-1921-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marereport.namma.org\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/book-review-a-century-at-kilindini-the-story-of-mombasas-mission-to-seafarers-1921-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: A Century at Kilindini: The Story of Mombasa\u2019s Mission to Seafarers 1921-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Review by Dr. Jason Zuidema, NAMMA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Sparrow, A Century at Kilindini: The Story of Mombasa\u2019s Mission to Seafarers 1921-2021<\/em>. Nairobi, 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the second edition of the story of the mission in Mombasa, a thoroughly revised edition of the book that first came out in 2011. This edition adds more detail and many new photographs to bring the story up to date. The author, Michael Sparrow, was Port Chaplain in Mombasa with The Mission to Seafarers from 2005 to 2012. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story focuses on the care of\nseafarers in Kilindini Port, the port of Mombasa, Kenya. Mombasa is a key maritime\nhub in East Africa and over the last century has witnessed all the stresses of\nwar, political turmoil, piracy, and pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author notes that Mombasa is\none of the ancient seaports of the world. (1) It was during the First World War\nthat the idea for a Mission to Seafarers location came to the port. \u201cThe formal\nbeginning of the Mission\u2019s work should probably be dated to January 1920, when\nthe Revd G.M. Wright convened a meeting in Mombasa. The eighteen people who\nattended accepted the constitution of The Missions to Seamen and agreed to\ncontinue the work towards establishing a Mission club.\u201d(7) In March 1921, The\nRev\u2019d Edmund Crawford, a CMS missionary was accepted as Acting Chaplain for the\nMission and the government allocated a plot of land to build a centre. It\nproved difficult to find a stable chaplain in the first decade of the centre\u2019s\nlife, but the potential was clear: \u201cSuch large numbers attended the concerts\nand entertainments held there that it was necessary to extend and complete the\nground floor of the building during the early weeks of 1924.\u201d (12)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stability arrived in the person\nof Rev\u2019d Fred Cribb, who served as chaplain from 1931 until 1946. Many\nseafarers enjoyed the amenities of the club, including a four-hole golf course\nand tennis court. From the Society\u2019s Annual Report for 1936, we read, \u201cThe\nChaplain writes as if he really enjoyed his work, and seafarers certainly\nrespond to the service he offers them.\u201d (16)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The building was seized by the\nKenyan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II. Though operating\nwithout a building, the work of the Mission continued. They found temporary\npremises and provided valuable services to visiting merchant mariners. (19)\nWhen Singapore fell, Mombasa became a base for the Royal Navy: \u201cthe merchant\nshipping had increased to about three times the former peacetime tonnage, while\nthe number of naval vessels had multiplied by six.\u201d (24) A new, more fitting\nbuilding was opened for the Mission in April 1944. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the war, a key challenge\nwas whether the Mission could amalgamate with the Merchant Navy Club in the\nconstruction of new buildings. The local port welfare committee had proposed\nthe merger, but the Mission wanted to remain \u2018dry\u2019 (35). However, by 1959 a\ncompromise was struck and construction on the new Merchant Navy Club adjacent\nto the Mission began. The issue was settled when The Revd Tom Kerfoot, Deputy\nGeneral Secretary of The Mission to Seafarers clarified that beer could be sold\nso long as it was \u201cwith a meal and not from a \u2018bar\u2019 as such.\u201d (39)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newly refurbished club and\nmission buildings attracted larger crowds throughout the 1960s: \u201cWhen Mombasa\u2019s\nnew club opened, Padre Morgan noted an increase of approximately 25% in the\nattendance of seafarers. He attributed that to the provision of a swimming\npool, which brought seamen to the Mission during the afternoons.\u201d(47) Yet, in\nthe coming decade, the Mission started to feel the impact of quicker\nturn-around times because of containerization and the employment of non-British\ncrews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financial pressure was\nparticularly acute in 1979 but was resolved with the help of guidance from\nLondon in the subsequent years. Improvements to the building were made with the\nhelp of the newly set-up ITF Seafarers\u2019 Trust. By the mid-1980s, it was a \u201cnovelty\u201d\nto see British seafarers and container ships were now the norm. Accompanying\nmore flags and diverse crew, were also new justice and welfare issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financial and governance crisis\nhit the Mission again by 1990. For several years, huge changeover in and\nfriction among trustees and staff led to significant monthly shortfalls. In\n1990, a new chaplain Richard Diamond and several student Assistants joined the Mission\nto turn around its downward trajectory: \u201cAt his first meeting of the Management\nCommittee, on 20 September 1990, the new Chaplain expressed his concern \u2018that\nthe aims of the Mission had been forgotten and that it had become a Social Club\nwith no ships having been visited for over a year.\u2019 He announced a number of\nmeasures to tackle the urgent problems.\u201d (72) Over the next years he and his team\nimplemented improvements to control spending and refocus the work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Civil unrest and war in neighbouring Somalia and the Middle East brought more ship traffic into the port and more seafarers into the Mission. Though this brought in significantly increased revenue, it also meant unwanted behaviour: as one example, 56 glasses were broken in one week in 1995 by unruly American merchant mariner guests. Tragically, unwanted behaviour was not only from guests, but also staff: \u201cfrauds involving credit card receipts at the bar, and a long-running fraud which involved years of careful manipulation of the accounts\u2026had effectively bankrupted the Mission by the time it was discovered in 2005.\u201d (78)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the challenges, the new century saw fresh, motivated staff and building renovations. But as the first decade progressed there were notable cases of abandonment and, increasingly, the scourge of piracy off the Somali coast. Mombasa port became a key centre of crew change for ships recently released from hijackers, but also a staging ground for security guards between vessels, many of who made use of the Mission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered\nthe Mission for several years, it has come out from the pandemic with a\ncontinued sense of purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sparrow\u2019s history of the Mission\nto Seafarers in Mombasa mirrors and amplifies the experience of many other\nmissions around the world which have followed the same contours of maritime\ntrade. However, its strategic location in the wars of the last century and\nproximity to unrest in and piracy off Somalia in the last generation created unique\nchallenges and opportunities that other seafarers\u2019 missions did not see. The\nstory testifies to a tremendous legacy of faithful work and the importance of\nseafarers\u2019 ministry in ports around the world.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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