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January 22, 2021 By Shelley Byrne
As it moves into 2021, the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) has repositioned its legal advocacy arm and updated its website to better serve brown-water mariners.
Following the retirement of Doug Stevenson after a 29-year career as director of SCI’s Center for Seafarer Rights, based in Port Newark, N.J., the organization has hired Phillip C. Schifflin Jr. as its new director of the Center for Mariner Advocacy, which now makes its home in Schifflin’s adopted hometown of New Orleans, La.
The name change and move are designed, in part, to enable Schifflin to serve both brown-water and blue-water mariners. Schifflin is working out of donated office space from Turn Services and has been on board with SCI since November. He comes to SCI after a 30-year Coast Guard career that included serving as staff judge advocate (senior legal counsel) for Coast Guard District 8 and, prior to that,
December 11, 2020 By Frank McCormack
‘Tis the season for buying Christmas gifts and planning holiday get-togethers with close family members and friends. But as is always the case, many mariners will spend the holiday season away from family and friends as they serve aboard towing vessels and other workboats, transporting the essential goods that feed and power the nation and the world.
And in 2020, with another wave of COVID-19 bringing restrictions and sickness to communities from coast to coast, mariners will carry another burden, not just
missing their loved ones, but
worrying about them as well.
Joy Manthey, longtime towboat captain and chaplain, packs Christmas At Sea gift boxes with Ana and Julian McCormack. Photo by Frank McCormack)