She is a cruising hospital, a place of worship, a tobacco shop, a clothing establishment, a free library, a club-room, an hotel, and a recreation ground.

If a smacksman is sick or injured, he will be fetched on board and receive skilled attention until he is better; if he wants to attend service and hoists a signal to indicate his wish, the Mission boat will call for him".

[6] The Dogger Bank incident occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Russian Baltic Fleet mistook a British trawler fleet from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for an Imperial Japanese Navy force and fired on them.

[7] The Mission surgeon, Dr Anklesaria, who was on board Joseph & Sarah Miles,[7] looked after the wounded from the trawler Crane and gave the following account: "I have never witnessed such a gory sight.

It kept me busy with knife and needle the whole of that day, and it was not until late in the night that I had the satisfaction of seeing them all safe and snug in their cots, as far as circumstances allowed".

[7] At the outbreak of war in 1914, Joseph & Sarah Miles was requisitioned by the Admiralty, allocated pennant number 1132 and armed with a single 12 pounder naval gun.

[4] Between May 1920 and December 1922, the SS Joseph and Sarah Miles participated in 49 separate research cruises, primarily focused on herring - egg and larval surveys, plaice egg surveys, plaice tagging but also the study of benthic organisms on the Dogger Bank.

[8] This documentary was filmed aboard the Mission ship Joseph & Sarah Miles and shows the 'Gamecock' fleet of nearly fifty North Sea trawlers.