Stanley Sailors' Hospital | |
Map Type: | Wales Anglesey |
Location: | Holyhead |
Region: | Anglesey |
Country: | Wales |
Coordinates: | 53.3093°N -4.629°W |
Healthcare: | NHS Wales |
Type: | Community |
Founded: | 1871 |
Closed: | 1987 |
Stanley Sailors' Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Morwyr Stanley) was a health facility in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales.
The hospital was financed by a gift from William Owen Stanley of Plas Penrhos who had wanted to establish a facility to provide healthcare to sailors.[1] It was officially opened in 1871.[2] During the First World War it served as a military hospital with Jane Henrietta Adeane, a niece of the founder, as its commandant.[3] When the Elder Dempster liner SS Apapa was torpedoed off Anglesey in November 1917, survivors were taken to the hospital to be treated.[4] The facility then served as a convalescent home for disabled servicemen before joining the National Health Service as a community hospital in 1948.[5] After services transferred to Valley Hospital, Stanley Sailors' Hospital closed in 1987.[1] The buildings were subsequently demolished and the site was redeveloped as a ferry terminal.[1]