Excerpt from the Mission to Seafarers AGM 1945
'Chapel services 499, entertainments 757, attendance at the three clubs 105,371, number of ships in port 1,503, visits to ships 3,748 , letters received 2,773, letters posted 24,602 , cables 1,032 , hospital visits: 708, Sunday teas : 149, Sunday drives 84 number in hostel: 4,315 , riding parties 23, Sunday dinners 4, airgraphs 808, billeting 88, new testaments 4, prayer books 85, football matches 45, baptisms 8, marriages 6, burials 5, food parcels to Britain 229, trips organised for the USN 64, theatre parties arranged 28, supplied to ships - gramophones, records, books, magazines, table games, playing cards, toys for British seamens children, woollen comforts and other clothing'