Centenarian African ship, Chauncy Maples, is being renovated and refitted as a primary health-care clinic capable of routinely visiting poverty-stricken villagers on the shores of landlocked Lake Malawi. Lead corporate sponsor of the charitable ‘Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust’ is London-based mutual insurance company, Thomas Miller Ltd., whose Chairman Hugo Wynn-Williams explained:  “... we sought a way to celebrate this [his company’s 125th anniversary] which would be imaginative, have the potential to do good and be of universal interest …”Last week Thomas Miller announced that work at the lakeside shipyard was already under way, secure in the knowledge that the Portuguese charitable isntitution, Manuel Antonio da Mota Foundation, had pledged to finance €2million of the running costs over the next ten years; nevertheless, further help in cash or in kind for the outfitting of the vessel was still needed. Chauncy Maples in 1904: Photo cour... [More]