page_title: John Williams (missionary)
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: John Williams (missionary) / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: The John Williams (LMS, 1869, p.36) Ship. John Williams (ship, built in 1865). The second John Williams, also paid for by children’s subscriptions, was a considerably bigger vessel, a barque of 296 tons gross, built by Hall, of Aberdeen, the famous clipper shipbuilder. In 1866, while still a new ship, she ran on a reef off Aneityum, in the New Hebrides. She was salvaged and repaired at Sydney, later on 9 January 1867, when she was wrecked on Savage Island (Samoa).&#91;1&#93;&#91;2&#93;
context_page_description: John Williams was an English missionary, active in the South Pacific. Born at Tottenham, near London, England, he was trained as a foundry worker and mechanic.
  In September 1816, the London Missionary Society commissioned him as a missionary in a service held at Surrey Chapel, London.
context_section_description: The LMS successively operated seven missionary ships in the Pacific which were named after John Williams. They were funded by donations from children. The first, John Williams, was launched in 1844, and the last, John Williams VII, was decommissioned in 1968.
  In December 2009 descendants of John and Mary Williams travelled to Erromango to accept the apologies of descendants of the cannibals in a ceremony of reconciliation. To mark the occasion, Dillons Bay was renamed Williams Bay.
caption: The John Williams II, built 1865. (LMS, 1869, p.36)[1]
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