They have served thousands of people and deserve to be remembered with their crews...
Deployed 1914 - Retired 1923 American Baptist Publication Society: Life Line was a missionary boat used to contuct work in the Coos Bay reqion of southwestern Oregon, United States. Once complete, "this little ship, under zealot Captain Lund, ran up and down the coast for the Baptist Missionary Society, saving the souls of erring seamen and longshoremen alike." Life Line later sunk off the coast, just south of Neahkahnie.
Deployed 1978 - Retired 2007 Mercy Mhips: The Anastasis performed more than 1,000,000 services, at a total value today of some $330 million with an estimated 1.5 million people as direct beneficiaries.
Deployed 1994 - Retired 2006 Mercy Ships: Crew onboard the Caribbean Mercy offered close to 289,000 services, at a value of over $113 million and with 348,800 people as direct beneficiaries.
Deployed 1983 - Retired 2001 Mercy Ships: Crew onboard the Island Mercy offered more than 145,000 services at a value of over $78 million and with 113,000 people as direct beneficiaries.
Deployed 1979 - Retired 1988 GBA Ships: GBA's pioneering first ship, Logos, was purchased in 1970. Over a 17-year period, more than 7 million visitors came to Logos during 250 ports of call in 102 countries. More than 5 million books were purchased during this time. In 1988, Logos ran aground on rocks off Tierra del Fuego, Chile, in atrocious weather conditions. Though the ship could not be saved, not a single crewmember was lost, or even injured.
Deployed 1998 - Retired 2008 GBA Ships: During a period of 20 years, over 10 million visitors were welcomed on board Logos II for tours, programmes and visits to the floating bookshop. With stops in 350 ports of call, this unique ship visited 81 countries, including Africa, the Americas, Europe, the Near East and many island nations.
Deployed 1974 - Retired 2009 GBA Ships: The MV Doulos held the biggest floating library in the world. Normally there were somewhere between 3000 to 5000 books on the shelves and half a million in the hold. She made her last world tour in 2009 and were de-commissioning in 2009.
Deployed 1988 - Retired 2001 Sea Inland Mission: The Mission Boat Kaksi Kalaa left Finland for her sailing voyage to Tahiti in 1988. Kaksi Kalaa means in English = Two Fishes. The the Polynesia School of Missions for example was established in Rarotonga, as a part of the Polynesia Islands Mission (PIM), which solely concentrates to the systematic evangelization of the whole Polynesia. The boat sadly sunk in the summer of 2001 while delayed in waiting for the dry the dry-dock.
Deployed 1999 - Retired 2004 World Mission Centre: Linaka, a 46ft catamaran, served many fishing villages and communities around the West Coast of Madagascar and East Coast of Mozambique during Project Focus.
