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

The work afloat is once more reorganised and the Mission Steamer is now based at Bristol, with Mr. E. P. Bott as her skipper under the charge of the Bristol Chaplin.

	The Rev. John Ashley and his second wife Elizabeth.
	Loss of the Mission steam ship 'Eirene' - At the outbreak of the first world war, the Mission Steamer was taken over by the Admiralty and used as a Patrol vessel in the Bristol Channel. After being engaged on this dangerous mission for nearly twenty two months, she was run down by a Norwegian timber-laden vessel and sunk, fortunately without loss of life.
	'The Mission Ship 'Eirene' - Bristol Channel - 1843' - The "Eirene," the first Mission Vessel for Seamen : Cabin rigged for Divine Service, off Cardiff.

PostScript - In the Committee Rooms at Headquarters will be found a portrait of Dr. Ashley of which the frame is made from the rigging of the original 'Eirene' used by him as a Church Ship over 100 years ago.