History > The Danish Seamen's Church

„The Danish Society for the Proclamation of the Gospel for Scandinavian Seamen in Foreign Ports" is founded 12th November.

The first seamanschaplain started in Hull in Northern England. Denmark exported a great number of cattle, as well as corn, butter and bacon, via the steamship routes.

The first Danish Seamen's Church is consecrated in Hull. The first number of the magazine The Port  is published the same year.

Danish seamanschaplains are at work in Hamburg, Hull, London, Newcastle and New York.

World War I leads to very difficult working conditions at the seamen's churches.

The seamen's church gets its own church in Hamburg.

The organisation changes its name to „The Danish Seaman's Mission in Foreign Ports".

The organisation changes its name to „The Danish Seamen's Church in Foreign Ports".

Under World War II 1,213 Danish seamen lost their life. The Seamen's churches in Danzig, Hamburg, Hull and Gent are wholly or partially destroyed.

 The first Danish Seamen's Church in Asia is consecrated in Yokohama in Japan.

The Danish Seamen's Church consecrates a seamen's church in Hong Kong in collaboration with the English organisation Missions to Seamen.

Singapore, the new super port and traffic junction in the Far East, gets a Danish Seamen's Church.

A seamen's chaplain is sent to Algeciras in Southern Spain.

The International Seamen's Centre, run by the Danish seamen's church in Singapore, opens on the quay at Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia.