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![[Crosshaven Yacht Club burgee]](../images/i/ie~cryc.gif)
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by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 June 2011
Part II of the 1928 German Flaggenbuch shows
the burgee of ‘Crosshaven Yacht Club’ of Crosshaven (Cork), Ireland on p. 103,
still among the British Empire burgees. I could not find anything
substantial on this club so for the moment a description will have to do: red
field with a white trefoil near the hoist bearing green initials from left to
right, “C.”, “Y.”, and “C.”.
Jan Mertens, 29 May 2011
The few items on Google which link to "Crosshaven Yacht Club" describe the
club as the oldest in the world, and one or two talk of the "Royal Crosshaven
Yacht Club". The oldest yacht club in the world is the Royal Cork Yacht Club,
based at Crosshaven, founded in 1720, which has been known by its current name
since 1831, having previously been called the Cork Harbour Water Club. It would
seem quite possible from that that the Crosshaven Club was merged into the Royal
Cork club at some time, possibly when the RCYC moved to Crosshaven during the
1960s, and may still be known by some by its old name.
James Dignan,
29 May 2011
Nowadays the Royal Cork Yacht Club is sometimes
called the Crosshaven Yacht Club, for being located in Crosshaven, but in 1928
it didn't yet have that location. Dermot Burns, archivist of the Royal Cork
Yacht Club, confirms that the Crosshaven Yacht Club existed from 1917 until
1927, which means it had in fact just disappeared when the
1928 Flaggenbuch was published. It did not have
a successor club of any kind, except that some of its members became members of
the Royal Munster Yacht Club, today the Royal Cork Yacht Club.
He also attached artwork for the burgee.
Note that this again shows the
curious difference we've encountered in other flags as well: The Flaggenbuch
shows the letters dotted, this image shows the letters on their own. With only
eleven years of existence, I can hardly imagine this indicates a further
development of the burgee.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 June
2011
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