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![[Douglastown Yacht Squadron flag]](../images/u/us~ycdys.gif)
image by Rob Raeside, 2 December 2018
See also:
Douglaston Yacht Squadron
Estb: 1927. Location: Douglaston, NY.
Burgee: Pennant 3:4 (print image). Red field charged with a white diamond
from base to apex of a blue right-angled triangle based on hoist.
Source:
matchbox cover courtesy Gustav Tracchia, email 30 November 2018.
“The current
burgee (pennant) of the Douglas Yacht Squadron is and adaption of William P’s
[Douglas] personal symbol. Willam P. Douglas . . . “defended one leg of the
America’s Cup race in 1881 in the yacht Sappho.”
"In 1906. . . The
Douglas Manor House became the Douglaston Inn and the old Van Wyck farmhouse . .
. became the Douglaston Country Club. . . . In 1918 the Country Club became the
Douglaston Club . . . In 1927 the Douglaston Yacht Squadron was formed with 77
members . . . "
Source: accessed 30 November 2018,
https://douglastonclub.memberstatements.com/tour/tours.cfm?tourid=50831
Peter Edwards, 2 December 2018
![[Douglastown Yacht Squadron flag]](../images/u/us~ycdys-ps.gif)
image by Rob Raeside, 2 December 2018
Source: accessed 30 November 2018. Detail, Currier and Ives print,
"The Race For The Queen’s Cup.” October 21, 1861.
https://springfieldmuseums.org/collections/item/the-race-for-the-queens-cup-currier-ives/
Peter Edwards, 2 December 2018
![[Douglastown Yacht Squadron flag]](../images/u/us~ycdys875.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 February 2019
The American Yacht List 1875, as accessible at the Mystic Seaport Museum (https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=amyachtlist),
confirms that W.P. Douglas was the owner of a Sappho:
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l0235051875/99. It also pictures the
private signal worn by a Sappho:
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l0235051875/14. This design is
clearly a split flag version of the Douglas Yacht Squadron pennant, hence I
assume that it is indeed this Sappho and this flag design.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,
27 February 2019
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