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The smash of a bottle and the flowing of champagne marked the launching of the standard boat, "Iron Duke, " in 1946. It was one of the three originals of the type and is still in good order and being used by Scouts today

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This photograph, taken in the late 1920s, shows members of the Iron Duke troop taking some children from a local orphanage for a jaunt around the harbour in the cutter "Arrow"

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Sea Scouts have to play their part on official occasions too and here the Iron Duke Scouts form a guard of honour for Sir Bernard Fergusson, then Governor General of New Zealand, at the opening of the new Nelson Harbour Board building in 1963. With Sir Bernard, left, is the late Mr G. R. McKellar, then chairman of the board

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Far from the sea a crew trains. This photograph, taken by Kevin Beach, shows a Venturers crew at Lake Rotoiti training for a national regatta

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This might be called a fund-raising venture. The Scouts went on a gold prospecting tour in the Howard Valley but here appear more interested in what's going to come from that oven. From left: Peter Barnett, CIeve Carpenter, Stephen Rodgers, Ian Buick, Rodger Simpson, Terry Delaney and Kevin Beach. Inspecting the oven is Raynor Busch