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According to Chapter 15, Rule 79.1(b) of the "Procedures, Organisation and Rules" of The Scout Association, "Groups recognised by the Royal Navy may use a Red Ensign defaced with the Arrowhead Badge surmounted by an Admiralty Crown in the fly." I have used Graham Bartram's
Red Ensign, the Arrowhead badge from the Scout Association's site, and the
naval crown from Graham's flag of the Maritime Volunteer Service at
http://www.flags.net/UNKG10
Joe McMillan, 2 September 2000
Other websites of branches of the Sea Scouts show variations of the flag
above. The
64th Sea Scouts site has a pop-up of the flag, which although the Union in
the canton is not so accurate, has a more realistic crown and the words "BE
PREPARED" below.
André Coutanche, 28 March 2003
At
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/newboldsea/flags/flags.htm is an image of
this flag - the defaced red ensign, but the badge in the fly is bigger than
shown here and it has a black anchor behind the scout arrowhead.
André Coutanche, 14 December 2003
The Boy Scouts Association (as it was then called) were given a warrant
permitting them to fly "the Red Ensign with the badge of the Boy Scouts
Association on the fly thereof, namely the fleur de lys incorporating the
words BE PREPARED, surmounted by a naval crown" on 15 April 1952. The drawing
in the file [National Archives (PRO) ADM 1/23993] was of a yellow fleur de lys
on a green circle surmounted by a naval crown. The crown had a yellow base,
green ships and white sails. It was noted that the hulls had been changed from
red to green because of the red field of the ensign. The current design has
the fleur de lys on a circle surmounted by a naval crown with BE PREPARED on a
curve below the circle. Colours not known.
David Prothero, 14 December 2003
Interesting that the Scout site at
www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/hqdocs/por/pages/c15.htm which we link from
our page on UK Scouts Associations specifies the
use of the motto for RAF-recognised groups of Air Scouts but says nothing
about the motto being on the Red Ensign for RN-recognised Sea Scout groups.
André Coutanche, 14 December 2003
located by Dov Gutterman, February 2002
Source: www.users.dircon.co.uk/~ssj/index (site no longer available).
This flag itself seems to be another
variation on the defaced red ensign (above).
André Coutanche, 14 December 2003