Thanks to so large a number of Scouts having taken up the training as
Sea Scouts we were able to supply about 1400 useful and efficient
fellows to act as Coastguards directly the war broke out. This enabled
a large number of the regular Coastguards to be sent to man the Fleet.
Since then, the Admiralty have been so satisfied with the good work
done by the Sea Scouts, who have been guarding our coasts from the
extreme north of Scotland down to the Land's End in Cornwall, that
they have asked for more of them, and we now have about 2000 employed
on this duty and as signallers on board mine-sweepers, coaling and
supply ships.
The Sea Scouts have won for themselves a very good name by Being
Prepared before war broke out.