Stella Maris Port Adelaide

19/12/2025

Merry Christmas everyone

18/12/2025

We started delivering Christmas hampers to visiting ships today

16/12/2025

14 crew members were rescued from a large trawler that was driven onto rocks outside Cuan an Daingin. The trawler had been driven aground on rocks near Binn Bán beach, where weather conditions were extremely poor with rough sea conditions. The crew were mainly Portuguese and Indonesian and were successfully winched from the vessel by helicopter Rescue 115.

16/12/2025

We are about to start giving out our Christmas Hampers and Christmas Presents, thanks to the Volunteers who assisted on Monday in picking out the Hamper.
Drakes Supermarket at North Haven will be making up another 16 Christmas Hampers for us and boxing them into lots of 4 to make it easy to carry on ship.
The Photo above is what each ship will receive (presents are separate gift).
The presents are from Henley Beach Chapter of St. Vincent de Paul Society and we thank them on behalf of the Seafarers they are much appreciated.
The Australian Mariners Pilots Association are to be congratulated on their wonderful donation to StellaMaris - Port Adelaide.
Our own Stella Maris Head Office are also to be congratulated for their contribution and assistance.
Our Lady of the Visitation Primary School made up 31 Individual packs for Seafarers and these have already been distributed. Well done to the School and Staff.
We know the Seafarers will know "They are not alone," being a long way from home and family.

We also have enough individual Christmas Presents for 2 ships and the first recipient of the presents will be the Grain Ship QC Isabella and that ship is presently at Inner Harbor 27, and on Wednesday will be transferring to Outer Harbor 8, then it is off to Penang. This ship has an all Filipino crew. They will get their presents this Thursday.
The remaining 16 Hampers will be ready by Thursday. If any Flinders Ports, Australian Border Force, AMSA, Marine Pilots and MUA staff feel that there is a ship which could do with a hamper, please let me know
We will try to get to as many ships as possible and naturally we will comply with all Flinders Ports Safety Instructions when delivering to the ships.
The Australian Border Force have been shown what we will be taking on board the ships. We thank them for their Cooperation on this project.

Regards
IanKeane
Centre Manager
Stella Maris - Port Adelaide

21/11/2025

Some photos of last Tuesday's presentation at the Our Lady of the Visitation School. The crew from the ship Lo**ta really appreciated the gifts (1 per Seafarer). We thank the school for all their tremendous effort on this project and we have already distributed 20 packs.

10/11/2025

The new garden area at Stella Maris Port Adelaide was officially opened in March 2021

10/11/2025

The official opening of garden area between our centre and the Our Lady of the Visitation Church was held in March 2021. The garden was blessed by Father Roderick. One of the seats in the garden is dedicated to Stella Maris. A plaque installed on the seat reads: “Donated by Stella Maris – Port Adelaide, in recognition of all past and present volunteers who have assisted seafarers spiritually and physically irrespective of race, colour or creed”

06/10/2025

In todays Advertiser

05/09/2025

According to https://www.gard.no/about-gard/, Gard enables "sustainable maritime development by providing insurance, financial security and practical assistance when disaster strikes." .... "Gard proudly comprises a diverse team, with employees hailing from over 30 different nationalities, working collaboratively across 15 offices worldwide." Our reason for mentioning all of this is that during his past week we visited a ship (not the one in this photo) where one of the seafarers asked us what we knew about a topic concerning their pay. Whilst we enjoyed afternoon tea in the ship's mess, we Googled the information for them in order to help them to chase up the matter. That was our good deed for the day, and we learnt something new ourselves.

20/08/2025

One of the many advantages of being a Stella Maris volunteer

27/07/2025

We are very fortunate that several ladies constantly provide us with a range of beanies for us to give to seafarers. The latest batch of warm wooly beanies included this one in Australian football team Adelaide FC's club colours

17/07/2025

Lefevre Catholic Community collections for Sea Sunday will be taken at Masses this weekend

💙 Stella Maris Appeal 🧡
Each year, Sea Sunday is set aside by many Christian Churches as a day to remember, celebrate, and pray for Seafarers and their families, and to give thanks for their lives and work. Seafarers work tirelessly in the high seas throughout the year bringing us more than ninety percent of the goods we need.
Fr Josy will give a short talk on Stella Maris and there will be a leaving collection at all Masses next weekend, 19th & 20th July. Thank you for your support.
- Adelaide Archdiocese & LCC

Stella Maris Port Adelaide