Scouting, Volume 18, Number 2, February 1930 Page: 45
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Mew SEA SCOUT REGULATIONS
kURING the past few years experimental work on the designs
' for the uniforms and flags for Sea Scouting has been in
, progress and the recommendations of the National Sea
Scout Committee have been approved and are now official.
Full particulars will be found in a pamphlet that will be issued
by the Sea Scout Department in the near future.
Extracts from the new regulations in regard to uniforms and
flags are quoted below, and illustrations of some of them are
given in this article.
Sleeve Insignia for Officials
(a) "All Commissioned Sea Scout Officials and Members of
Sea Scout Committees will wear stripes of silver braid on both
sleeves of the coat, with the lower stripe 2 inches above the edge
of the cuff and parallel thereto, and additional stripes (if any)
will be worn inch apart."
This is illustrated on the sleeve of the Sea Scout Skipper,
number 11.
Number 6 shows the details on the Mate's sleeve.
Nlimber 7 shows the details on the Skipper's Sleeve.
Number 8 shows the details on the Ship Committeemen's
sleeve.
Number 9 shows the details of the Local Scout Executive's
sleeve.
Number 10 shows the details of the Local Commodore's sleeve.
(b) "The Sea Scout Badge embroidered in silver will be worn
on the outside half of each sleeve, centered inch above the
top stripe." See above sketches.
(c) "The badge of Commissioners and Sea Scout Committee
Members will be surrounded by a silver rope forming an oVal."
See number 8.
(d) "The badge of Chairmen of Sea Scout Committees will
be surrounded by a silver rope in the form of a diamond." See
number 10.
Changes in Regulations
The principal changes made by these new regulations are
as follows:
The First Mate who formerly wore a inch stripe now
wears a inch stripe.
The Skipper who formerly wore a >2 inch stripe now wears
a inch stripe and a *4 inch stripe.
Ship Committeemen's badge now bears a wreath.
Scout Executives of Local Councils wear three inch stripes.
Local Sea Scout Director (a new rank) wears one ^2 inch,
one *4 inch and one V? inch stripes.
Assistant Field and Deputy Scout Executive wear two ^2
inch stripes.
Commodores wear three ^2 inch stripes with diamond rope
around the badge.
All officers, including Mates, will wear ^2 inch silver chin
straps on their caps.
Quartermasters will wear black chin straps as before.
All Sea Scouts will wear the Community Strip, white on blue
and blue on white similar to what is now worn by Land Scouts
in red and khaki.
Sea Scout Flags
The Sea Scout Ship flag shown at the top of this page on the
right hand corner, sketch 5, is a new flag which is authorized to
be carried by Sea Scouts. Provision has been made for the
name of the Ship and the Local Council from which it is
registered. This flag is not a class flag. The class flags are
the pennant, burgee and rectangular flags. These have always
been authorized. The Class Flag should be carried with the
Ship flag and may be flown on separate poles or on the same
pole as the Ship flag.
All officers in Sea Scouting are authorized to fly a flag. Offi-
cers in each rank have a distinguishing flag. These flags are
hoisted on the masts of ships, or on some conspicuous part of
the meeting place when these individuals come aboard or visit
the ship or meeting place. All these flags are blue with white
insignia and stars.
One star on flag designates a District Officer.
Two stars designate a Local Council Officer.
Three stars designate a Regional Officer.
Four stars designate a National Officer.
The flag of a District Committeeman is shown in number 1
of the sketch at top of page.
Flag of Assistant or District Executive is shown in number
2 of the sketch.
Flag of member of a Local Sea Scout Committee is shown
in number 3 of the sketch.
Flag of Commodore of a Local Council is shown in number
4 of the sketch.
Flag of Troop Official is without star.
There are also four Ship Flags, blue with write lettering.
In addition to these Ship flags there are first, second and third
class Ship flags which are well known to all Sea Scouts at
the present time.
There is a flag for every Sea
Scout Ship with its name in white
letters as shown in sketch num-
ber 5.
There are also squadron flag-
ship flags, that is, the flag for
the leading Ship in the Council.
There are also Regional Flagship
Flags and the National Flagship
Flag. Owing to the lack of space
the others cannot be shown in this
article.
The Committee also authorized
appropriate certificates and com-
missions to be issued to all Scout-
ers identified as chairmen of Na-
tional, Regional or Local Sea
Scout Committees or members of
National, Regional and Local Sea
Scout Committees, and that these
certificates shall indicate the re-
lationship of the individual to the
Sea Scout Program.
Correct Uniforms
Being properly and correctly
uniformed should be a'matter of
great pride to all Sea Scouts and'
Leaders and wherever there is any
doubt of what should be worn, it
is strongly urged that information
be requested on this subject from
the National Sea Scout Depart-
ment.
Three points as to which there
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