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Douglaston Yacht Squadron (U.S.)

New York

image by Rob Raeside, 2 December 2018

Description of the flag
William P. Douglas' private signal
Private Signal (1875)

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Description of the flag

Douglaston Yacht Squadron

Estb: 1927. Location: Douglaston, NY.

Burgee: Pennant 3:4 (print image). Red field charged with a white diamond from base to apex of a blue right-angled triangle based on hoist.
Source: matchbox cover courtesy Gustav Tracchia, email 30 November 2018.
“The current burgee (pennant) of the Douglas Yacht Squadron is and adaption of William P’s [Douglas] personal symbol. Willam P. Douglas . . . “defended one leg of the America’s Cup race in 1881 in the yacht Sappho.”

"In 1906. . . The Douglas Manor House became the Douglaston Inn and the old Van Wyck farmhouse . . . became the Douglaston Country Club. . . . In 1918 the Country Club became the Douglaston Club . . . In 1927 the Douglaston Yacht Squadron was formed with 77 members . . . "
Source: accessed 30 November 2018,
https://douglastonclub.memberstatements.com/tour/tours.cfm?tourid=50831
Peter Edwards, 2 December 2018

William P. Douglas' private signal

image by Rob Raeside, 2 December 2018

Source: accessed 30 November 2018. Detail, Currier and Ives print,
"The Race For The Queen’s Cup.” October 21, 1861.
https://springfieldmuseums.org/collections/item/the-race-for-the-queens-cup-currier-ives/
Peter Edwards, 2 December 2018

Private Signal (1875)

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 February 2019

The American Yacht List 1875, as accessible at the Mystic Seaport Museum (https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=amyachtlist), confirms that W.P. Douglas was the owner of a Sappho: https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l0235051875/99. It also pictures the private signal worn by a Sappho: https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l0235051875/14. This design is clearly a split flag version of the Douglas Yacht Squadron pennant, hence I assume that it is indeed this Sappho and this flag design.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 February 2019

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