One of the delights coming to the 35 th Floor is taking the opportunity to look over the Bay and breath in the view. But given my current role at the Mission to Seafarers I now also see merchant sailors on those ships helping to keep us supplied. And of course, during COVID the seafarers were very isolated. Our goods are supplied often at great personal cost, one of the many memorials in the building is in a window with the image of a young man called William, from Yorkshire, a midshipman killed in Geelong in Port by accident. The sea was and remains a dangerous place.
So today, let us be grateful for the many goods brought to us over the oceans, even Melbourne’s coffee. And of course, our club will be having our own crew changeover very soon.
Philip Cornish
