The Sea Cadet Corps is a national youth organisation based on the customs and traditions of the Royal Navy.

The landlord's son Michael is a member of the local Sea Cadets unit. The Runcorn unit does not have a website of its own so we have given it a brief mention here.

Formed in 1914 with the support of the Admiralty, The Sea Cadets were created when the Naval Lads Brigades (which went back to the Crimean War) were adopted by the Navy League. Young people from ten to eighteen years old can join.

Local Units are known as Training Ships, following Naval tradition.

Although more than 20 percent of new Royal Navy recruits are Sea Cadets, the movement is not primarily a pre-service organisation. It aims to equip young people with the qualities of self reliance, personal discipline and team work which will hold them in good stead whatever career they pursue.

Our core training is based on seamanship and traditional maritime skills, but Cadets can also study mechanical and electrical engineering, communications, cookery, computers, band musician, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, and a host of associated subjects to prepare them for adult life.

With the experience of the Sea Cadets under their belts, many ex-Cadets have risen to the very top of their professions. Old boys include such famous names as movie star Sean Connery, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, TV personality Rolph Harris, jazz legend Kenny Ball – not forgetting The Archbishop of Canterbury.

We meet on Mondays and Fridays from 19:00 to 21:30 at:
T.S. Ashanti
Old Quay Workshops,
Mersey Road,
Runcorn,
WA7 1DF
Contact: Petty Officer Edge on Runcorn 574370.