Sea Scouts 1941

Original Description Youth Carries on a Great Tradition 'The Sea Scouts carry on Britain’s seafaring tradition, and Captain Scott’s famous command ‘DISCOVERY’ is their training ship. In addition to Scout Law, they learn wireless telegraphy, navigation, swimming and life-saving, and the meaning of discipline, team work, resourcefulness. They thus become good scouts, good seamen and good citizens.' Initially believed to be lost, a solitary copy of Sea Scouts was found during the research on the British Council Film Collection, held at the Scouting Association archive. The ship seen in the film — the RRS Discovery — was used as a training ship by the Sea Scouts until 1954, when it became too expensive to run and was transferred to the Admiralty and became the HMS Discovery. A tourist attraction, the ship can now be visited at Discovery Point in Dundee. (Films of Britain - British Council Film Department Catalogue - 1941)