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Record Number: 15.104

Record Type: Text/Image

Caption:

This is a photograph of the Royal Albert Sea Scout Troop on the canal - Early 1950s? (Courtesy of George Burnett. Ref No. 12.1)

Summary:

The Royal Albert Scout Troop was formed in 1936, with a Rover Scout crew established in 1947. The Sea Scout Troop was founded in 1949 with its focus a lifeboat - costing £25 - requisitioned from a German Tanker in Barrow in Furness. With the craft (photographed) moored on the Lancaster canal, this troop consisted of 28 patients and lasted until 1953 when it changed into a Land Scouts Troop (2nd Lancaster Boys Scout Troop), at that time involving only 8 scouts.
(Source: Wangermann O (1992) '1948-199: The wheel turns full circle' in Alston J (selected) Roberts E (ed)The Royal Albert: Chronicles of an Era Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster)

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Keywords:

Scouting Training Male

Sea Scouts Photograph