Priest in Deep Water: Charles Hopkins and the 1911 Seamen's Strike
This book is an introduction to the remarkable life of Charles Plomer Hopkins. Charles Plomer Hopkins, a Victorian church organist, called by circumstance to a seamenis chaplaincy on the Indian sub-continent, eventually achieved an unlikely apotheosis in his announcement and leadership of the first, and, so far, only international seamenis strike. 'The extraordinary effect of Hopkinsis ministry among seafarers on his own and other churches is only now beginning to be appreciated. His influence was profound. His troubles, often of his own manufacture, were great. It seemed apt to entitle his life story Priest in Deep Water, its ambiguity encapsulating both the general thrust of his ministry and the particular troubles by which it was dogged.' From the Introduction.
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Priest in Deep Water: Charles Hopkins and the 1911 Seamen's Strike
This book is an introduction to the remarkable life of Charles Plomer Hopkins. Charles Plomer Hopkins, a Victorian church organist, called by circumstance to a seamenis chaplaincy on the Indian sub-continent, eventually achieved an unlikely apotheosis in his announcement and leadership of the first, and, so far, only international seamenis strike. 'The extraordinary effect of Hopkinsis ministry among seafarers on his own and other churches is only now beginning to be appreciated. His influence was profound. His troubles, often of his own manufacture, were great. It seemed apt to entitle his life story Priest in Deep Water, its ambiguity encapsulating both the general thrust of his ministry and the particular troubles by which it was dogged.' From the Introduction.
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Priest in Deep Water: Charles Hopkins and the 1911 Seamen's Strike

Priest in Deep Water: Charles Hopkins and the 1911 Seamen's Strike

by Robert Miller
Priest in Deep Water: Charles Hopkins and the 1911 Seamen's Strike

Priest in Deep Water: Charles Hopkins and the 1911 Seamen's Strike

by Robert Miller

Overview

This book is an introduction to the remarkable life of Charles Plomer Hopkins. Charles Plomer Hopkins, a Victorian church organist, called by circumstance to a seamenis chaplaincy on the Indian sub-continent, eventually achieved an unlikely apotheosis in his announcement and leadership of the first, and, so far, only international seamenis strike. 'The extraordinary effect of Hopkinsis ministry among seafarers on his own and other churches is only now beginning to be appreciated. His influence was profound. His troubles, often of his own manufacture, were great. It seemed apt to entitle his life story Priest in Deep Water, its ambiguity encapsulating both the general thrust of his ministry and the particular troubles by which it was dogged.' From the Introduction.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780718892326
Publisher: The Lutterworth Press
Publication date: 11/26/2010
Pages: 140
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

Currently a Catholic Priest in the west of England, Robert Miller has been a long-time student of Maritime Social History and a member of the Society for Nautical Research and the International Maritime Economic History Association. He has worked for both the Missions to Seaman and the Apostleship of the Sea.

Table of Contents

I Early Contacts with Sailors


II Port Chaplain in Rangoon


III Hopkins in Akyab


IV London Interlude


V In Calcutta


VI Meeting Havelock Wilson 1894-1900


VII Towards a Strike 1900-1911


VIII The Strike


IX After the Strike


X Conclusion


Bibliography
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