Volume Nine - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - The Missions to Seamen at Penarth . . .

1898 - Bristol Channel Missions to Seamen - 'On Monday afternoon last in the presence of a select gathering, at Penarth Dock, the Lord Bishop of Llandaff dedicated the new mission steamer 'Eirene'. The trial trip will take place this week.

The 'Eirene' is the largest vessel in the fleet of the Missions to Seamen, and is intended to convey the chaplain day by day to the shipping in the various roadsteads in the Bristol Channel from Newport to Lundy Island, a distance of about eighty miles, and to the islets, lightships, and lighthouses in that great thoroughfare for shipping and fishing vessels.' - Barry Dock News [140] [361] 20th February 1891.

	May 1898 - Launch and Consecration of the Missions to Seamen Yacht 'Eirene'.

1911 - The Caretaker at the Mission was a retired naval gentleman named William Edwin Thomas (b.1875), who lived with his wife and two children at the Mission, Penarth Dock, according to the 1911 Census return. [680]

1891 - Annual Statement for the Year Ending December 31st, 1891 showing a deficit for the Mission.