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Malahide Sea Rangers of IGG on the "The Lady Grania" R.Liffey,Dublin Port 1959

In last Saturday’s  Irish Independent  supplement  1950-1954 rolling back the years had many interesting photo’s from around Ireland in the fifties. Well what caught our eye was a photo of Malahide Sea Scouts on board the  “The Lady Grania” a Guinness ship opposite the Customs House on the River Liffey.The caption read members of the north Dublin troop pictured in 1959 modeling their new uniforms.

The eight girls in the photo were all members of the Malahide Sea Rangers of  the Irish Girl Guide Association a section within IGG.Sea rangers were established in  Malahide (The Lady Grania), Dollymount (SRS Queen Elizabeth 2),Dunlaoghaire,Bray,Ringsend,Dodder and Howth.The ranger’s named their sections after naval and merchant ships.Correspondence between rangers and ships were encouraged.

Over the years the the units twinned with established Sea Scout groups and would meet in their dens and on occasions have joint activities. The girls in the photo are named Ann Fry,Barbara Boyd,Margaret Dawson,Hilary Norton,Ruth McMullan,Diana Gilbert,Vivian Morrison and Vivian Wakely.Some of the girls would have had brothers both in the modern sea scout troop 9th Port Malahide and the old 15th Dublin Malahide land scout troop.

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