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Last modified: 2012-10-07 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Ratzeburger Yacht- und Motorbootclub
• Segelclub RHE
• Segelclub Rheingau
• Mecklenburgischer Yachtclub Rostock
• See- und Segelsportverein Rostock
• Rostocker Segelverein Citybootshafen
• SV Rot-Gelb Hamburg von 1926 e.V.
• Klub am Rupenhorn

• Yacht Club Burgees (Germany)
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Ratzeburger Yacht- und Motorbootclub

Unknown yacht club pennant (RYMC)
It is a blue pennant with a white edge. Shifted to the hoist there are two white sails of different sizes. Shifted to the flyend are white capital letters "RYMC".
Source: I spotted this car sticker on 2 January 2007 in Hamburg.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Nov 2008

found here: Dozens more on this Schleswig-Holstein yachting website (which may contain other unknowns), clubs searcheable geographically or alphabetically.
Jan Mertens, 11 Nov 2008

Segelclub RHE e.V.

Norie and Hobbs 1971 shows under figure 314 the burgee of Segelclub Rhe e.V., white with a black cross offset to the hoist. This Königsberg sailing club 'migrated' to [Hamburg] after the Second World War.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 November 2001

White pennant with a black Scandinavian cross. This is the oldest German yacht club, founded in 1855.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 22 May 2002

Norie and Hobbs 1971 shows under figure 313 the ensign of Segelclub Rhe e.V., Königsberg, as the German flag 1871-1918, with offset towards the hoist a shield, as high as two stripes, silver, a cross throughout Sable with an escutcheon Argent (silver) an eagle Sable (too small to distinguish the details).
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 November 2001

Segelclub Rheingau e.V.

Blue pennant with a broad white Scandinavian cross and a red anchor fouled in white in the middle of the cross.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 22 May 2002

Mecklenburgischer Yachtclub Rostock e.V.

Yellow pennant with a black griffin. The griffin is the Heraldic Beast of Pomerania. It is also shown on the municipal flag of Rostock.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 10 May 2002

Very similar to the Rostock Pennant pre-1870 to 1918.
Santiago Dotor, 16 September 2005

See- und Segelsportverein Rostock

See- und Segelsportverein Rostock (Mecklenburg-Westpomerania) - Blue flag with a yellow fouled anchor and three yellow stars placed horizontally.
Source: Club website.
Ivan Sache, 1 Jul 2002

Rostocker Segelverein Citybootshafen e.V.

Pennant divided by a white Scandinavian cross, hoist quarters blue, fly quarters red, a white anchor in the canton. The municipal colours of Rostock are blue, white and red.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 12 May 2002

SV Rot-Gelb Hamburg von 1926 e.V.

sailing department

Hamburg base

It is a white pennant with a shield shifted to the hoist. The shield is divided per bend sinister into red with a yellow scallop upon the dexter chief and plain yellow cotized red and yellow.
Source: website of Hamburger Yachthafen.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2011
Please note that this flag had been reported 2008 and it is meanwhile replaced by the flag of Harburg base (see below)

Harburg base

It is a yellow triangular pennant divided by a red cross shifted to the hoist. The intersection point of crossbars is superimposed by a blue diamond containing a yellow compass rose. It is the pennant of former club
SV Rot-Gelb von 1950 e.V. Harburg.
Source: spotted this as a car sticker on 27 March 2007 in HH-Borgfelde, for further information click club's website.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Sep 2008

Klub am Rupenhorn e.V.

Red pennant with a black Scandinavian cross fimbriated white and black (2:1:1).
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 9 May 2002

This burgee —and a few others— are clearly inspired in the Imperial war ensign. I assume that all those clubs were established at least before WW2.
Željko Heimer, 8 May 2002

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