Miranda Peters grew up in farmland suburbs of Ontario, Canada, which is a far cry from her current role as the Mission to Seafarers’ assistant chaplain at the London Tilbury Seafarers’ Centre.

From her home in Stoney Creek, Peters moved to Vancouver, where she worked for the Mission, and arrived in the UK about 16 months ago.

Now living in Poplar, an area of east London steeped in docklands history, she is seeing and hearing at first hand the challenges faced by seafarers in the modern era.