All day and into the night Captain Benn made his rounds of Brooklyn's piers supplying newly arrived vessels with something that he said could keep sailors sane and captains ethical: reading material. Benn had been spreading words for 11 years by...

The Seaman's Branch of the YMCA, originally established as the Scandinavian Seamen's Mission, hosted 263 unsettled sailors, deckhands, and other maritime men from sixteen nations for Christmas dinner near the piers of Erie Basin in 1938. According...

Seaman's handbook for Shore Leave , by United States Merchant Marine’s  Social Service Bureau. Custom House, published in 1920 listed sailor’s homes – places were sailors could get a bed and sometimes a meal for a night  - from...

Post 5195 Red Hook Memorial Post 325 Van Brunt St Brooklyn, NY 11231 (718) 624-9313 Meeting Location & Time 7:30 PM 2nd Thursday of Month Quartermaster: Juri Tassa estographicsinc@msn.com Commander: Michael "Mickey" Chirieleison (no email)...

Street address: 325 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

The Bethesda Mission was founded in 1899 by local members of the Lutheran Church of America. Their purpose was to provide a steadying religious influence for young people. In 1905, they built the building at 22 Woodhull Street, Brooklyn. It had room...