Its journey began back in August 2009 in St. Andrews, Scotland at the graveside memorial service to Warington Baden Powell older brother of Robert and founder of Sea Scouting. Warington published Sea Scouting and Seamanship for boys in 1909 and a new branch of scouting developed rapidly through out Great Britain and Ireland initially and then throughout the world , known as Sea Scouting.

The flag has travelled over 25,000miles so far  since Summer of 2009 .It began its journey at the 100^th Anniversary  Sea Scout Camp held in Nottingham , UK last summer and has travelled from England , Scotland, New Zealand , Council of South Pacific Scout Associations Conference ,Tonga, Fiji ,Hong Kong, USA, Finland , Spain , France  and now Ireland en-route to Eurosea 10 in the Czech Republic.

As Countries begin to celebrate their own centennial of Sea Scouting, a photo and a badge placed on the flag is all that is asked for ,and then it is sent onto the next country. It will continue its journey up to 1912 and probably several years beyond. It’s due back in Ireland in 1912 to celebrate our own Centennial. Although Sea Scouts were active in Ireland from 1910 onwards official registration was not till September 1912 as a Local Association.

Posted on Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at 14:36 in Friday Scouts, Group.