Stella Maris Singapore
Stella Maris · at Singapore
- Address
- Mariner's Club, 37 Kian Teck Road, Singapore
- Phone
- +65 6264 3062
- [email protected]
- Website
- https://www.stellamarissingapore.org
- Hours
- Daily
Services available
- Chaplaincy / ship visits
- Chaplains visit ships in port (port chaplains) and serve at the welfare centre. Their role is pastoral support, practical help (transport, money-changing, hospital visits, family-emergency communication), and confidential conversation. You do not need to share their religion to ask for help.
- Hospital visits
- If a crew member is hospitalised in port, the welfare centre will arrange chaplaincy visits, translation, and liaison with the operator and the family. Most centres have an established relationship with the principal port-area hospital. Bring the patient's seaman's book and any medical paperwork the ship has on file.
- Transport to/from the ship
- Most port-side welfare centres provide a van or minibus shuttle between the ship's berth and the centre, and onward into town. Transport is normally free but may have set departure times. Ask the chaplaincy in advance — or call the centre's helpline — to confirm pick-up timing. Bring your gate pass and seaman's book for terminal security.
About Stella Maris
Stella Maris (the Apostleship of the Sea) is the Catholic Church's official seafarer-welfare ministry. Founded in Glasgow in 1920, Stella Maris operates in around 330 ports across 60+ countries and is the largest single seafarer-welfare network. Chaplains visit ships in port, run port-side centres, and provide 24-hour pastoral and practical support. Like the Mission to Seafarers, Stella Maris serves seafarers of every faith and none.
The pastoral and practical care of seafarers — Catholic-rooted but inclusive — through ship visits, centres, helplines, and advocacy.
A Stella Maris centre will offer free wifi, chapel/quiet space, basic shop, and almost always transport to and from the ship. Chaplains conduct ship visits in many languages and will help arrange hospital visits, family-emergency communication, and legal aid where appropriate. The centres are typically open daily, with a chaplain available for confidential conversations.
No paperwork is required for routine visits — wifi, shop, transport, chapel — but bring your seaman's book if you want to access advocacy, legal aid, or any case the chaplain may take up with port-state-control or the ITF. For longer pastoral conversations, no preparation is needed; chaplains are bound by professional confidentiality.
At this port
This centre serves Singapore in Singapore. Check the port page for shore-leave, visa, helpline, and PSC context that affects your call here.
Editorial confidence: how we grade. Welfare centre opening hours change — confirm before visiting.