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The Royal Western Yacht Club of England uses a plain blue ensign,
undefaced. Blue ensign granted 1 January 1843.
David Prothero, 7 June 2014
Established 1827 as Port of Plymouth Royal Clarence Regatta Club,
patron was Duke of Clarence, Lord High Admiral.
1833. Changed name to
Western Yacht Club.
15 May 1834. Admiralty Warrant for “Distinguishing
Ensign. - White with a red cross, a crown in the centre, surrounded with a
wreath of roses, intertwined with oak leaves, and a union at the head of the
ensign.” The title ‘royal’ was added inadvertently. A letter of 21 July 1909
from Buckingham Palace to the Home Office indicated that “the Royal Title should
not be restored, but re-created with date 15 May 1834”.
December 1837.
White Ensign defaced crown and lion. ‘Of England’ added to title, “to
distinguish club from Irish club similarly designated”. I guess that the
defacement was changed because, at any sort of distance, the previous one would
have been indistinguishable from the Western of Ireland’s ‘White with a red
cross, a crown in the centre, surrounded with a wreath of shamrock’.
22
August 1842. Admiralty Warrant for plain Blue Ensign. Crown on blue burgee.
From 1909 Rule Book. Each yacht, though held by same owner, requires
separate Admiralty Warrant.
Privileges of club:
1. Free of Port
Charges in France, Holland, Belgium, Russia, Denmark, Prussia, Egypt, Syria,
Canada, Hanover, Greece, Portugal, Norway, Sweden and Spain.
2. United
Kingdom; free of duty in bond warehouse.
3. Use of government buoys, when
not in use, with permission of Naval Authority.
4. Blue Ensign.
5. Free
of Coasting Licence for moving property in yachts.
6. Spars from HM Dockyard
on application to Admiral-Superintendent
[National Archives HO
144/1060/188875]
David Prothero, 14 November 2014
The Dumpy Book of Ships and the Sea (1957)
shows the burgee blue with a crown.
James Dignan, 12 February 2008