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Hyde Park Ice Yacht Club (U.S.)

New York

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 March 2012

Description of the flag
Vice-commodore's flag
Vice-commodore's flag

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Description of the Flag

19 January 1900, The Evening Post, New York wrote:
"The Hyde Park Ice-Yacht Club has been organized with sixteen charter members, and a fleet of twenty boats. The following officers were elected at the general meeting: Commodore, J. Sterling Bird, Jr., of Hyde Park; Vice-Commodore, John Hopkins; Secretary, Frank Cleary; Treasurer, regatta committee William H. Storms, William A. Leonard, and James W. Finch. The membership has since been increased to thirty-four, and most of the crack boats on the Hudson River fly the club burgee. As soon as the ice permits several races will be sailed."
http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper 10/New York NY Evening Post/New York NY Evening Post 1900 Grayscale/New York NY Evening Post 1900 Grayscale - 0171.pdf (whole newspaper page)

One decade later, in The Rudder for July to December, 1910, volume XXIV,
p. 286 - Ice Yachting, H. P. Ashley wrote:
"The largest and most influential club on the Hudson River is the Hyde Park Ice-Yacht Club, situated at Hyde Park, a few miles above Poughkeepsie, with a membership of ninety and a fleet of thirty-eight ice-yachts ..."
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/thomas-fleming-day/rudder-goo/page-37-rudder-goo.shtml
(several Rudder pages on one web page)

For 1914 the pennant of the HPIYC was apparently still sailed, but after that the only mention I've been able to find is that in 1925 the "Encyclopedia of biography of New York" lists the HPIYC as a membership for Dr. F.B. Weaver. It would seem the club had become inactive and eventually ceased to be. Hyde Park Landing Ltd. write that they have adopted the burgee of the HPIYC as their logo, and fly it below the "US Ensign".

The burgee is a white pennant with a composed saltire blue over red.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 March 2012

Commodore's flag

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 March 2012

The Hide Park Landing website, on its history page http://www.hydeparklanding.com/history.html, shows a page from the club's 1909 year book, which shows the club's burgee, and the commodore and vice-commodore flags.

The commodore's flag is blue flag with a composed saltire white over red, thus exchanging the colours white and blue when compared to the burgee.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 March 2012

Vice-Commodore's flag

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 March 2012

The vice-commodore's flag is red flag with a composed saltire white over blue, thus exchanging the colours blue and red when compared to the commodore's flag.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 March 2012