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I know that Little Yarmouth hasn't been called that for a long time, but
would there really have been founded both a "Yarmouth Yacht Club" and a
"Great Yarmouth Yacht Club" in the same year? What entry is in error, or what
bit is missing, I wonder.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26
February 2015
It is more likely that there was only one yacht club in Great Yarmouth, that
was sometimes referred to as Yarmouth and sometimes as Great Yarmouth, than that
there were two clubs in the same town, one called Yarmouth and one called Great
Yarmouth.
David Prothero, 15 May 2015
Yarmouth Yacht Club, Norfolk.
Established 1883.
1884. Listed in Lloyds
Yacht Register. Red Ensign defaced with the Arms of Great Yarmouth: shield with
three gold lions on red, dimidiated with three silver herrings on blue.
1890.
Last entry in Lloyds Yacht Register.
David Prothero, 23 December 2014
The ensign's defacement as shown above is speculative based on David Prothero's research.
Based on experience, I am confident that this a very close and acceptable
interpretation of what the badge on the red ensign probably looked like.
Clay Moss, 25 February 2015
It matches the burgee of the present Great Yarmouth Yacht Club as depicted at their site.
However, the Norfolk Broads lists in their constitution a "Great Yarmouth Yacht
Club" founded in 1883, as one of the clubs to merge to for the new club in 1937.
(http://www.nbyc.co.uk/nbyc-information/club-constitution)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26 February 2015
Using Lloyd's Registers of Yachts, here is a sequence of events:
Negotiations were held with the Norfolk Broads Yacht Club to obtain the approval to demerge
GYYC, which was agreed.
The club burgee is so far as we know the original design. The club still exists and indeed is holding a regatta
in September 2021.
Whilst the club would like to use the spoiled ensign it cannot do so without proper permission from the Admiralty.
Malcolm Duffield, 4 September 2021
image by Clay Moss, 25 February 2015
based on
image located by David Prothero, 17 February 2015
The image from Album des Pavillions Nationaux, 1923, is probably
the Great Yarmouth Yacht Club, whose burgee had just one of
the three lion/herrings from the Great Yarmouth shield.
David Prothero,
17 February 2015