The Friends of the Maritime Museum is a voluntary society with charitable status set up in 1989 to help the Jersey Heritage Trust establish and maintain a Maritime Museum, to encourage its use by the public, and to provide a Learned Society role in maritime subjects.
www.maritime.je
The Friends have the following aims:
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We research Jersey Maritime History.
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We provide volunteers to assist with Maritime Museum projects.
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We assist with the restoration and maintenance of the Island’s ‘historic fleet’
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We raise funds to support the work of the Maritime Museum Boat shop.
Over the last 20 years they have
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funded the fitting out of the Boat shop in the Maritime Museum.
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completed the digitisation of the Jersey Shipping Register 1803-1933 which can now be consulted at the Jersey Museum, the Jersey Archive, and the Library of the Société Jersiaise.
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provided funds for the restoration of the 1860s fishing cutter Fiona.
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have bought seven paintings by Ian Boyd for the Maritime Museum.
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provided funds for the restoration of the 1937 lifeboat RNLB Howard D.
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and we are now in the process of digitising the Jersey Merchant Seamen’s Benefit Society books which contain the service records of merchant seamen serving on board Jersey registered vessels from 1835 until 1900.