"A REFUGE FOR ALL"

A Royal Charter of King William and Queen Mary founded the Royal Naval Hospital for Seamen, known subsequently as Greenwich Hospital, in 1694 on the site of the royal palace at Greenwich. Its aims were:

'the reliefe and support of Seamen…belonging to the Navy Royall… who by reason of Age, Wounds or other disabilities shall be uncapable for further service…And for the Sustentation of Widows and the Maintenance and Education of the Children of Seamen happening to be slain or disabled. Also for the further reliefe and Encouragement of Seamen and Improvement of Navigation'

Today Greenwich Hospital provides charitable support to serving and retired men and women of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and their dependants. It does this through sheltered housing, pensions and grants to naval charities. The Hospital owns the Royal Hospital School, a co-educational boarding school principally for the children and grandchildren of naval and other seafaring families. The Hospital also makes some other educational grants.

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