A view of 'John Williams VII' at sea. Turquoise waves splash along the red hull of the ship, and a green strip of land is visible at the top right. A blue 'LMS' flag flies from its mast. 'John Williams VII' was the final missionary ship of that name of the London Missionary Society: it was built in 1962 and decommissioned in 1968.

John Williams, for whom the ship and its six predecessors were named, was a missionary killed on an evangelical expedition to the New Hebrides in 1839. The first came into service with the London Missionary Society in 1844. This was a protestant and primarily Congregationalist organization founded in 1795, whose missionaries travelled to the Pacific Islands, China, India and Africa.

See ZBA5484 for a model of 'John Williams VII'.