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Bristol Channel Yacht Club (United Kingdom)

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Burgee

[Burgee of Bristol Channel Yacht Club] image by Peter Edwards, 1 October 2017

The Dumpy Book of Ships and the Sea (1957) shows the burgee red with a blue cross with the Prince of Wales feathers overlaid on it.
James Dignan, 12 February 2008

Bristol Channel Yacht Club (United Kingdom)
Location: Mumbles, Swansea, South Wales.
Image: Lloyd's Yacht Register, 1889.
Burgee: Pennant. Red field. Blue St. George's Cross surmounted in centre by Prince of Wales feathers proper.
"The meeting was held at the Castle Hotel in Wind Street, Swansea on 24th February 1875 to promote a new yacht club. . . . to be called the Bristol Channel Yacht Club and the station to be at The Mumbles; that the new yacht club be amalgamated with the Mumbles Billiard Club . . . "
"Many members of the BCYC. have been members also of the Mumbles Yacht Club and there developed, post [Second World] war, a close association between the 2 clubs."
Quotes: Club website.
Peter Edwards, 27 September 2017


Ensign

The (German) Flaggenbuch 1905 states that the red ensign is used without badge (i.e. undefaced) by different yacht clubs based on a warrant and lists this yacht club as using the red ensign.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 October 2019