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General
Introduction
Cost(s)
Qualifications on Offer
Vocational Qualifications
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
Running Preston Sea Cadet Corps
Instruct - Training Staff
Support - Parents and Friends Association
Manage - Management Committee
History
Origins of the Building
The Site
Sea Cadets
For more detailed information on each section please visit:
Preston Sea Cadets
Preston Marine Cadets
Preston Junior Cadets
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Introduction
Preston Sea Cadets is a voluntary uniformed youth organisation. We are part of the National Sea Cadet organisation with over 400 units and 10,000 members.
Preston Sea Cadets provides young people aged 10 - 18 years with valuable academic and vocational training in a number of subjects including the life skills of teamwork, self-respect and social responsibility - the core qualities of good citizenship. TS GALLOWAY provides these educational and training opportunities right in the heart of the community.
We can offer literally hundreds of residential courses over the whole year covering a wide range of subjects and disciplines.
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Costs
Current details of costs are provided when joining.
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Preston Sea Cadets works with a number of local organisations both in the local area and nationally to provide top class training and qualifications in a wide range of areas.
Because of this we are able to provide Cadets with Nationally recognised qualifications such as Radio Foundation Licences, Btec in Public Services, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE), Junior Sports Leader Award (JSLA) and the Community Sports Leaders Awards (CSLA), British Expedition Leaders Awards (BELA) Millennium Volunteer Awards (MV), not to mention all the qualifications which can be gained out on the water with the Royal Yachting Association (RYA)in Power boating, Sailing, Offshore Sailing, Offshore Power and Windsurfing and Canoeing under the British Canoe Union.
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Instruct - Training Staff
Responsible for the day to day running of the Training Ship, welfare of the cadets, their instruction, and furthering the aims of the Sea Cadet Corps.
The staff at Preston Sea Cadets are unpaid volunteers who give up their free time to invest in young people.
Despite their voluntary status all of our staff are highly trained and qualified, every instructor has an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check and all undertake at least a 4 hour First Aid course most hold a First Aid at Work or the equivalent Royal Naval Level 2 qualification.
Come and join the team.
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Support - Parents and Freinds Association
The Parents and Friends Association is made up of parents, relatives and supporters of the Preston Unit. They are responsible for the day to day fundraising for running the unit.
The Parents and Friends Association aims to provide improved funding, equipment and services for the young people who are members and to encourage recruitment and community involvement.
The Parents and Friends Association hold regular meetings normally on a normal parade night. All Parents and Supporters are welcome to come and add their ideas and to assist the unit in any way you can.
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Manage - Management Committee
Made up of members from the community, interested parties, representatives of Religions and community leaders.
The Unit Management Committee is responsible for the charity arm of the Unit including Fundraising and the Upkeep and indeed Improvement of the building and facilities.
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History of The Sea Cadet Corps and Preston 277 Sea Cadets
The Sea Cadet Corps probably has the longest continuous history of any youth organisation in the country. A few of the landmarks in its evolution are summarised below:
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1856 A clergyman who had returned from the Crimean War was so concerned at the number of single parent and orphaned boys resulting from the loss of so many soldiers and sailors, that he established an orphanage at Whitstable, enlisting the help of sailors who had returned from the war. A number of similar orphanages, including ones at Whitby, Brixham and Deptford, soon followed and, by the end of the 19th century there were 'Brigs' or 'Brigantines' in several towns, some independent, some loosely organised into 'Naval Lads' Brigades'.
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1899 Her Majesty Queen Victoria graciously presented a £10.00 note to the Windsor Naval Lads' Brigade for the purchase of uniforms. Because of the close relationship between the Windsor Naval Lads' Brigade and the Windsor Branch of the Navy League, the anniversary of this event, 25 June, has been declared the birthday of the Sea Cadet Corps.
1914 The Navy League applied to the Admiralty for recognition of its 34 Brigades.
1914 Preston Sea Cadet Unit Headquarters was originally a hospital in the First World War (1914). At that time it was situated on Moor Park and was one of several buildings of a similar construction. As far as is known this is the only one left.
1919 Admiralty recognition was granted subject to an annual efficiency inspection by an Officer on the staff of the Admiral Commanding Reserves, and the title Navy League Sea Cadet Corps was adopted. There were five other Sea Cadet Corps, all much smaller.
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1920 Preston Sea Cadet Unit moved to another location in Preston before it arrived on its present site on Strand Road, Preston. PR1 8DT. Preston Sea Cadets will celebrate its 90th Birthday this year (2010).
1937 Lord Nuffield gave £50,000 to fund the expansion of the Corps.
1939 At the start of the war there were nearly 100 Units with some 10,000 cadets.
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1942 The Navy League's 1941 scheme for training Sea Cadets in TS BOUNTY for service in the wartime Navy caught the Admiralty's imagination. The Admiral Commanding Reserves took over the training role in January 1942, HM King George VI became Admiral of the Corps, Officers were granted appointments in the RNVR and the Corps was renamed the Sea Cadet Corps (SCC). A huge expansion to 400 Units and 50,000 cadets coincided in many towns with Warship Weeks so that newly-formed Units took the names of adopted warships.
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The Admiralty now paid for uniforms, equipment, travel and training while the Navy League funded sport and Unit headquarters. Thousands of Bounty Boys progressed into the Navy as communications ratings, many returning to their Units after the war ended. In the same year the Girls' Naval Training Corps was formed as part of the National Association of the Training Corps for Girls with Units mainly in southern England.
1943 All Units were given Unit numbers in alphabetical order from "1 Aberdare" to "381 York". Thereafter Units were numbered in sequence as they were affiliated to the Navy League, reaching 430 by the end of the war.
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1947 Both the Admiralty and the Navy league wished to continue their involvement with and a measure of control over, the SCC and they agreed a continuation of their wartime co-sponsorship. The conditions were now embodied in an agreement between them known as the Sea Cadet Charter. Amongst other items, the Admiralty undertook to support a maximum of 22,000 cadets, to supply uniforms, boats, training facilities, travel expenses and limited pay to adult staff who retained their appointments in the RNVR (and, in a later re-organisation, of the RNR). The Sea Cadet Council was set up to govern the Corps with membership from the Navy League and the Royal Navy. A retired Captain took on the task of supervision, first as Secretary to the Council and later as Captain Sea Cadet Corps. From the same date the Girls' Naval Training Corps expanded throughout the country. By the late 1950s there were more than 50 Units and the name had been changed to the Girls' Nautical Training Corps.
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1948/9 Preston Sea Cadets shooting team. Front from left PO Cadet Berrill, A/B J. K. Fazackerley, Maj. F. Morris, Sub. Lt. Tom Dewhurst was the team's Gunnery Officer was the Mayor of Preston in 1971 and 1972, (Preston Guild year 1972). Tom was a character and was well respected. He continued with Preston Sea Cadets as its President. Sub. Lt. J. Cartmell (Shooting team coach, and had his diaries of his life in the trenches during the First World War serialised in the Lancashire Evening Post), A/B A.Smith and L/S R. Eaton. Back from left, A/B D. E. Lucas, A/B F. A. G. Wills, A/b T Newsham, A/B Tom Benson (the successful marathon walker), A/B George Benson and A/B J. Reynolds. The team won the Lord Derby Rose Bowl and the NRA Major Section Spring Competition. The pinnacle of the .22 shooting success came when the Preston Sea Cadet team won the UK Championship. The then went on to represent the Sea Cadet Corps against the other cadet serviced for the Punch Challenge Trophy in London.
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1950 Preston Sea Cadets award-winning rifle team were winners in the UK Championships in 1950. The team from Preston Sea Cadets based at its Strand Road Headquarters TS GALLOWAY won the Lord Derby Rose Bowl and the NRA Major Section Spring Competition. Winning the UK champions, the team from Preston represented the Sea Cadet Corps against the other services for the Punch Challenge Trophy in London and came second. Since then Shooting at Preston continued and the team won the Shell Trophy and one year won all the trophies at the Bisley NRA Inter Service shooting. Cadets from Preston Sea Cadets have also represented GB as Athelings in Canada.
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1955 The Commandant General Royal Marines asked permission to form a Marine Cadet section which could be fitted into the existing organisation and the Sea Cadet Council agreed to this. Within 10 years the Marine Cadet section had expanded from the original 5 Detachments to 40.
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1963 It was proposed to amalgamate the three Girls' Corps into one national body, to be called the Girls' Venture Corps. The Girls' Nautical Training Corps (GNTC), not wishing to lose its naval identity, asked the Navy League to take over its sponsorship.
1964 The Girls' Nautical Training Corps (GNTC) was affiliated to the Sea Cadet Corps (SCC). In many cases, the GNTC shared premises with local Sea Cadet Units.
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1976 The Navy League was renamed the Sea Cadet Association since support of the SCC and GNTC had now become its sole purpose. At the end of the year the title of Admiral Commanding Reserves lapsed and his functions, including responsibility for the SCC, were transferred to the Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command (CINCNAVHOME) in Portsmouth. The Sea Cadet Charter was revised and replaced by a Memorandum of Agreement.
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1980 On 31 March the Ministry of Defence (Navy) approved the admission of girls into the SCC within the overall ceiling of 22,000. The GNTC ceased to exist as a separate body and its Units were admitted to the SCC to form Girls' Nautical Training Contingents. The number of Contingents, originally set at 120, was raised to 150 in 1983.
1986 All limits on Contingent numbers were removed by the Admiralty Board and replaced by a limit of 35% of girls in the Corps overall. By late 1991 over 300 Units contained girls.
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1994 At a conference in Portsmouth an International Sea Cadet Association was formed to encourage international exchanges, to foster the Sea Cadet ethos world-wide and to stimulate the formation of new Corps. Founder members were: UK, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Germany, Holland, Japan, South Africa, Sweden and the USA.
1995 The Sea Cadet Association was reconstituted as a company as well as a national charity.
1997 The Captain of the Sea Cadet Corps assumed the title Commodore of the Sea Cadet Corps (abbreviated in 2001 to Commodore Sea Cadets).
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.jpg "Preston Sea Cadets pass the covered market in the Preston Guild 1992 Community Procession. Compare this to the 1922 Guild Procession.")
1992 Preston Sea Cadets take part in the famous Preston Guild 1992. Preston Guild only takes place every 20 years and the next on will be in 2012. The whole unit took a very active part in the 1992 Preston Guild not only on Preston Dock but in the City Centre in the Community Procession and the Torch Light Procession when the cadets had a P & O model ship for the float. If anyone has a picture of the float, please send a copy to the email address below or to Preston Sea Cadets, TS GALLOWAY, Strand Road, Preston PR1 8DT.
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1992 The successful integration of the male and female cadets and their adult leaders over the previous eleven years led to the logical step of discontinuing the separate Girls' Nautical Training Contingents from 1 January. Sea Cadets, male and female, now became entitled to identical training. Adult Sea Cadet staff, male and female, became entitled to the same opportunities, insignia, rank, nomenclature and pay. In its Golden Jubilee year the SCC numbered some 400 Units once more with a rising total membership of around 16,000. Beyond the UK, there were Units in Malta and the Falkland Islands, as well as Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. This year saw the formal introduction of Junior Sea Cadets aged from 10 to 12 years into the Corps.
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2001 On 5th December 2001 HRH The Duke of York CVO ADC and Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps visited Preston Sea Cadet Corps. Presented the unit with the Burgee for 2000, inspected the ships company and visited cadets under instruction. He then unveiled the plaque to commemorate his visit to Preston Sea Cadet Headquarters based on Strand Road, Preston.
2004 The Sea Cadet Association merged with the Marine Society to form The Marine Society and Sea Cadets (MSSC) which became the new parent body of the SCC and the nation's largest maritime charity.
2005 Fifty years after the formation of the Marine Cadet section, there were for the first time 100 Units with Marine Cadet Detachments.
2007 The appointment of head of the SCC was assumed by a serving Royal Naval Captain, known as the Captain Sea Cadets and Director of Operations (CSC)
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2010 Preston Sea Cadets will celebrate its 90th Birthday in 2010. The Preston Unit of the Sea Cadets was officially recognised by the Admiralty in 1920 and since that time has played a leading part in the voluntary training of young people.
The arrival of the girls at the premises is lost in the mist of antiquity but in 1946 the existing Sea Ranger Crew became the Unit No. 45 of the Girls Nautical Training Corps (GNTC), which became the Girls Nautical Training Contingent before amalgamation with the Sea Cadets.
Preston Sea Cadets expanded further in 1968 when a Marine Cadet Detachment was formed. The Sea Cadets Marine Cadet Detachment will also celebrate its 42nd Birthday in 2010.
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