With the transfer of the Sea Rangers to become a second Sea Scout Troop within 3rdCB, we needed a way of distinguishing between the two troops.
The Girls’ Monday Troop will continue to use Solebay as their Troop name (Solebay being their old Sea Ranger Crew name), the Boys’ Friday night Troop have adopted the name Renown as their Troop name. This is named after one of the cockle boats which went out to Dunkirk from Leigh during WW2 to assist with the evacuation of British Troops, and was destroyed after striking a mine on the way home, going down with all hands. Continue reading New Troop Names
On Monday 3 November the Group’s Sea Ranger section, SRS Solebay, are transferring over on mass to become a second Sea Scout Troop at The Den. Solebay formed in 1981 to offer a girls section at The Den before they were routinely accepted into Scouting, but as the organisation and support has shrunk on a national level the difficult decision was taken to move over the Scout Association.
