Stella Maris Port Adelaide

24/01/2026

Some photos from Friday evening 16th January when 32 People attended our thank you get together. Special thanks go to Joan and Michael Collins for coordinating this event. And thanks to all others who assisted with the event. It was an outstanding success, especially when we had 2 Seafarers turn up just after 6:30pm.
They got a pleasant surprise at being given the four St. Vincent de Paul gifts to take back to their ship (apply named "MATE". You can't get more Aussie than that.)
A special touch was when we had John and Nada Stoiber from the Henley Beach Parish at the function. John presented the two visiting Seafarers with the gifts.

21/01/2026

Work being done at berth 6 https://www.facebook.com/share/1HU6m6brTT/

06/01/2026

Although our centre reopened this week following the Christmas break, the centrre will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday due to extreme heat conditions.

06/01/2026

06/01/2026

Our Christmas Hampers and Christmas Presents have been distributed over the past couple of weeks. (All funds for this project have come from the Australian Mariners Pilots Association plus $1,400 raised by Our Lady of the Visitation School, and some 47 Christmas presents provided by St. Vincent de Paul -Henley Beach Chapter

31/12/2025

Happy new year []

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