Royal Temple Yacht Club (United Kingdom)

Last modified: 2015-03-14 by rob raeside
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• Flag of the club
• Burgee

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• British yacht clubs and sailing clubs index
• United Kingdom

Flag of the club

The Royal Temple Yacht Club uses a plain blue ensign, undefaced. Blue ensign granted 27 April 1898.
David Prothero, 7 June 2014

Established 4 March 1857, at Ramsgate, Kent, as Temple Yacht Club.
1857 ? No warrant, plain Blue Ensign, blue burgee: T Y C in white.
18 May 1897. Granted title ‘royal’.
27 April 1898. Warrant for plain Blue Ensign. Blue burgee: in hoist, white Pegasus superimposed on yellow foul anchor surmounted by crown, horizontal red-edged white T in fly.
1907. T removed from burgee.
David Prothero, 13 February 2015

Burgee

image located by David Prothero, 13 February 2015
Source: Hounsell Brothers Flag Book c1873.

image located by David Prothero, 13 February 2015
Source: Album des Pavillions Nationaux, 1923.

The Dumpy Book of Ships and the Sea (1957) shows the burgee blue with an anchor surmounted by a crown. The anchor is overlaid with what looks like a winged horse, facing the hoist. Colours are uncertain, but probably yellow or white.
James Dignan, 12 February 2008

Blue burgee: close to the hoist, white Pegasus superimposed on yellow foul anchor surmounted by a full colour crown.
David Prothero, 7 June 2014