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The ensign is navy blue, with the Irish national flag in the canton, a gold harp in the lower fly, with three gold crowns below it, and below the central crown the date 1720.
![[Royal Cork Yacht Club]](../images/i/ie~rcycb.jpg)
image located by Jan Mertens, 14 March 2011
Source:
http://www.rcyc.ie
The Dumpy Book of Ships and the Sea (1957)
shows the burgee red with a harp surmounted by a crown.
James Dignan, 12 February 2008
The burgee can be seen on Royal Cork Yacht Club’s merchandise section, at
http://www.rcyc.ie.
Jan Mertens, 28 March 2010
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image
located by Jan Mertens, 14 March 2011
The French ‘Album des pavillons nationaux et des marques distinctives’,
1923 edition, shows the ensign’s predecessor,
the Red Ensign with the Irish shield – azure a lady harp crowned, or - in the
centre of the Union Jack (canton) plus the burgee still flown nowadays.
Jan Mertens, 14 March 2011
“Pleasure sailing, if not yachting as we should like to understand it, begin
to stir in 1720 with the establishment of the Water Club of the Harbour of Cork.
An idea of the activities of the Water Club is best given by quoting from ‘A
Tour Through Ireland’ which was printed for J. Roberts, Esq., in 1748. ‘I shall
now aquaint your Lordships with a ceremony they have at Cork. It is something
like the Doge of Venice wedding the sea. A set of worthy gentlemen who have
formed themselves into a body, which they call the ‘Water Club’, proceed a few
leagues out to sea once a year, in a number of little vessels, which for
painting and gilding exceed the King’s yacht at Greenwich and Deptford.’
Some
of the rules cannot be passed without mention.
‘1. Ordered that the Water
Club be held once every spring tide, from the first spring tide in April to the
last in September inclusive.
5. Ordered that the Secretary do prepare an
Union flag, with the Royal Irish harp and crown on a green field in the centre.
[This defaced Union flag was granted by the Lords of the Admiralty to William,
Earl of Inchiquin, for the Cork Harbour Yacht Club in 1759] Ordered that the
Water Club flag be hoisted on club days early in the morning on the Castle of
Haulbowline."
These gay records cannot be followed after 1765 and thought
there is an entry in 1806, the club seems to have done little other than present
annual prizes for fishermen and rowing-boats until 1822, when a society which
originated as a picnic club carried on at Haulbowline Island under the title of
the Little Monkstown Club. In 1828 however, old Water Club members and Little
Monkstowners got together to re-establish themselves under the title of the Cork
Yacht Club. So started the oldest sailing club in existence, now the Royal Cork
Yacht Club.”
From "King's Sailing Master" by Douglas Dixon.
David
Prothero, 15 March 2011
Today, the RCYC is sometimes called Crosshaven Yacht Club, for being located
in Crosshaven. Note, however that from 1917 to 1927 there existed a separate
club called the Crosshaven Yacht Club.
Peter
Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 June 2011
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image by Rob Raeside, 13 September 2018
Rectangle 4:6 (print image). Red field charged in the centre with a yellow Maid
of Erin harp with St. Edward crown.
Peter Edwards, 13 September 2018
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image by Rob Raeside, 13 September 2018
Same shape, proportion, design, and colour as Admiral except with a
yellow disk in the canton.
Peter Edwards, 13 September 2018
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image by Rob Raeside, 13 September 2018
Same shape, proportion, design, and colour as Admiral except with two
vertically placed yellow disks in the canton.
Peter Edwards, 13 September 2018
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image by Rob Raeside, 13 September 2018
Swallowtail. 4:6 and 4:3 to crutch (print image). Red field charged
in the centre with a yellow Maid of Erin harp with St. Edward crown.
Source: St. Leger, Alicia. A History of the Royal Cork Yacht Club. Crosshaven, Ireland, 2005.
Peter Edwards, 13 September 2018
