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![[Riverton Yacht Club]](../images/u/us~ycriv.gif)
image by Miles Li, 28 July 2022
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On the 14th of April 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head. He died the
next day.
On the 1st of July 1865, the Riverton Yacht Club was formed.
With such a brutal attack still in everyone's mind, it's no surprise that the
club selected a stars and stripes pattern.
Fall 1865 the US Congress
determined that no-one else could adopt a stars and stripes pattern, possibly to
avoid an avalanche of such flags. Congress did not forbid the already existing
burgee of the RYC. Thus, the Riverton has a really unique burgee on their ships.
![[Riverton Yacht Club]](../images/u/us~ycriv_man01.jpg)
image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 July 2022
The club reports that originally, they used a swallow-tail design, but somewhere in the eighties of the 19th century they switched to a pennant. I've found an example in Lloyds yacht register of 1902-1903.
I found an image in Manning 1901, and though the club claims they had by then
long switched to a pennant, apparently they forgot to tell the yacht club list.
Thus here we have an original two-tailed burgee, with the six file distribution
of the stars.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 July 2022
![[Riverton Yacht Club]](../images/u/us~ycriv_man91.gif)
image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 July 2022
I did find entries in Manning's: Burgee that clearly does not show two tails, but someone forgot to tell the artist how it should look as a pennant; commodore and vice-commodore; showing what the reason is for not putting one dark colour on top of another.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 July 2022
Commodore
![[Riverton Yacht Club]](../images/u/us~ycriv_man91c.gif)
image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 July 2022
Vice-commodore
![[Riverton Yacht Club]](../images/u/us~ycriv_man91vc.gif)
image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 July 2022
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