A new ordinance by Jean-Baptiste Colbert creates the Caisse des Invalides meant to rescuing the wounded mariners. Simultaneously, a small sum is spared from mariners’ wages – one 40th – to run two dedicated hospitals, one at Rochefort, the other in Toulon. This act completes Colbert’s welfare work to the seafarers. Trinity House On its own, England has been taking care of her mariners for long. The Guild which became in 1514, through a charter by King Henry VIII, the Maste