Priest in Deep Water: Charles Hopkins and the 1911 Seamen's Strike

by Naomi Miller

Book Overview

This book is an introduction to the remarkable life of Charles Plomer Hopkins. Charles Plomer Hopkins, a Victorian church organist, called by circumstance to a seamenis chaplaincy on the Indian sub-continent, eventually achieved an unlikely apotheosis in his announcement and leadership of the first, and, so far, only international seamenis strike. 'The extraordinary effect of Hopkinsis ministry among seafarers on his own and other churches is only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718892321
• ISBN13: 9780718892326
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"