Idea wychowania morskiego w praktyce żeńskiego ruchu harcerskiego w latach międzywojennych
Idea of Maritime Education in the Practice of the Female Scouting Movement in the Interwar Period

Summary/Abstract: This article describes the concept of maritime education implemented in the female scouting environment in the interwar period. To develop the topic, archival materials stored in the Archives of New Records, the Scouting Museum and the collections of the University Library of the Catholic University of Lublin and the Main Medical Library were used. In addition, valuable information was obtained from the resources of the scouting press, as well as thematic studies, particularly of memoirs. The analysis of the source materials indicates that the idea of maritime education was gradually implemented, initially as part of the activities of scouting circles in Vladivostok and then Wejherowo. From the second half of the 1920s, the boating movement—which had been initially associated with male scout teams from Poznań, Vilnius and Warsaw—was developed among girl scouts. In 1931, the troop of the 13th General Zamoyska Blue Team of Scouts in Poznań acquired a sailing character. At that time, the girl scouts started a series of specialised sea yachting training. In 1934, the scouts acquired an independent training yacht ‘Grażyna’. In the second half of the 1930s, independent women’s crews sailed in the Gulf of Gdańsk and the waters of the Baltic Sea. Maritime education was related to the maritime policy of the state. At that time, it was also based on the educational assumptions of scouting and was popularised in the scouting press. The most outstanding girl scouts specialising in women’s sailing were Jadwiga Skąpska-Truscoe, Jadwiga Wolffowa and Janina Bartkiewicz.

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