Seamen's Hospital Society 'Dreadnought'

[Phil Hughes]

In May 1991 a sister from the Dreadnought hospital received an award at Harrogate together in anther ceremony conducted immediately after another 5 merchant seamen were also presented with the Numast award. I beleive this was the first time this award had been presented as was totally new. She has the distinction to be the first woman to have received. I have a copy of the article somewhere but after decorating things haven’t gone back in their correct places. So when I do find will post her name and particulars. I beleive the next award whenever it was
2 year or 4 years later was to the Canadian shipping minister , this is not positive because I lost touch and Numast I beleive disappeared to Holland. The dreadnought was still going in 1991 but don’t know anymore about it since. JS

I think you'll find that the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital was at Greenwich by the National Maritime Museum but with the decline in our M.N. it was closed to save money and we were given a M.N. Ward in St. Thomas' Hospital opposite the Houses of Parliament, sadly I believe that M.N. Ward no longer exists. The Greenwich site is now part of the University of Greenwich.
Phil Hughes. R698842

[j.sabourn]

#19 if I had looked back to the original of this post and looked at the replies would have seen have already answered my own question, the sister was a Phil Lake a female so assume her full Christian name must have been something like Philomena. One should look before one leaps I suppose or keep quiet , probably memory is worse than I thought. Cheers JS