Editing Sea Scout (section)

==History==
[[File:The Boy Scouts Association in Britain, 1914-1918 Q19966.jpg|thumb|right|upright|A coast-watching Sea Scout signals to a British warship during the First World War.]]
[[File:Jamboree1963SeaScouts.jpg|thumb|right|A demonstration by [[Scouting Nederland|Netherlands Sea Scouts]] at the [[11th World Scout Jamboree]] in [[Greece]], 1963.]]
[[File:Texas A& M; students lead scouts at 2013 National Scout Jamboree 130722-G-NM852-745.jpg|thumb|US Sea Scout leaders in 2013]]

One of the earliest records of  "Sea Scouts" is in [[Chums (paper)|''Chums'']] magazine which refers to "Sea Scouts" as early as July 1909.<ref>[[Chums (paper)|Chums]], vd. e.g. 14 July 1909 p879, 21 July 1909 p888, 28 July 1909 p921.</ref> These Sea Scouts were part of the Chums Scouts and [[British Boy Scouts and British Girl Scouts Association|British Boy Scouts]]. {{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

Also in the ''Chums'' magazine, the British Boys Naval Brigade, later National Naval Cadets, were subtitled 'Scouts of the Sea' from the 14 July 1909 edition and, from the 28 July 1909 edition, 'Sea Scouts of the Empire'.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boy-scout.net/en/page1/page31/page31.html |title=Chums |access-date=2013-05-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214034419/http://www.boy-scout.net/en/page1/page31/page31.html |archive-date=2012-02-14 }}</ref> The British Boy Scouts and an original company of The National Naval Cadets were both headquartered in Battersea, London and the 'boys' weekly newspaper ''Chums'' was the official journal of both. The National Naval Cadets affiliated with the British Boy Scouts as part of its Sea Scouts.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

Later, Sea Scouts were introduced within the [[The Scout Association|Baden-Powell Boy Scouts]] organization. In the first edition of ''[[Scouting for Boys]]'', [[Baden-Powell]] mentioned that "A Scout should be able to manage a boat, to bring it properly alongside a ship or pier....". In December 1908, the first Seamanship badge was issued as one of the first 'Efficiency' badges.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://retentioninscouting.org/The_Early_History_of_Sea_Scouting.pdf |title=The Early History of Sea Scouting |work="Johnny" Walker's Scouting Milestones pages |pages=1–10 |date=April 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072409/http://retentioninscouting.org/The_Early_History_of_Sea_Scouting.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> A camp for Scouts was held at [[Bucklers Hard]], [[Hampshire]] in August 1909 at which boating activities were a focus. In 1911, Baden-Powell wrote the booklet ''Sea Scouting for Boys''. [[Warington Baden-Powell]]<ref>[[Warington Baden-Powell]], K.C., an Admiralty lawyer, sailor, inventor of [[canoe]] sailing and author of ''Canoe Travelling: Log of a Cruise on the Baltic, and Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Canoes'' London, Smith, Elder, 1871.</ref> wrote ''Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys'' in 1912, with a foreword by [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Baden-Powell]]. A special uniform for Sea Scouts was approved in 1910 and, in 1912, the name "Sea Scouts" was officially adopted within Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Association.<ref name="SeaHist">{{cite web|url=http://www.seascout.org/about/history-uk.html|title=A Short History of Sea Scouting in the United Kingdom|last=Masini|first=Roy|year=2007|access-date=2009-01-17}}</ref>

Sea Scouting found its way to the rest of the world. In many organisations a Sea Scout troop or group has a special name, in the Boy Scouts of America it is called a ship,{{citation needed|date=March 2014}} and they are sometimes referred to as "[[Puddle pirate]]s".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Penrith |first=Mark |date=23 July 2009 |title=So Mark, fundamentally, what do you believe? Part 2 of 5 |url=http://www.crystalparkbaptistchurch.co.za/so-mark-fundamentally-what-do-you-believe-part-2-of-5/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207111011/http://www.crystalparkbaptistchurch.co.za/so-mark-fundamentally-what-do-you-believe-part-2-of-5/ |archive-date=7 December 2017 |access-date=7 December 2017 |website=crystalparkbaptistchurch.co.za |df=mdy-all}}</ref>