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Ensign
image by Clay Moss, 19 May 2007
Small boat and yacht variant
image by Clay Moss, 19 May 2007
Ratio: 2:3
Burgee
image by Clay Moss, 19 May 2007
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The Royal Hamilton Yacht Club (RHYC) opened its doors in 1888. Their website can be found at https://www.rhyc.ca/
If anyone visits the site and sees the picture of the RHYC ensign, the club asks that we dismiss it as a variant. Evidently, someone on their own had some "poor quality" ensigns made up, and the club doesn't want them to be considered "official" as it were.
You will notice that I have posted two ensigns
with a St. Edwards crown and modern Canadian maple leaf. These two
illustrations are drawn from art work the club graciously forwarded to me on
12 May, 2007 and represent the very latest rendition of the ensign as it
will be manufactured. In somewhat popular Canadian fashion, the shorter
ratio ensign is being made for use on smaller boats and yachts. In the
RHYC's case, they are ordering 12x18 inch ensigns.
Clay Moss, 19 May 2007
image by Clay Moss, 19 May 2007
This ensign contains a more natural shaped maple
leaf. The RHYC has used this variant recently and this can almost certainly
be considered an accurate portrayal of the club's ensign before 1965.
Clay Moss, 19 May 2007
image by Clay Moss, 19 May 2007
The Royal Hamilton Yacht Club's pre-Elizabeth II ensign
with a Tudor crown.
Clay Moss, 20 May 2007
Hamilton Yacht Club - 1891
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 14 September 2009
The American Yacht List 1891 [qua91], provided on-line by
Mystic Seaport Library shows a burgee without a crown.
I took a peek and read in the club history (‘Our Story’)
that in, or about, 1891 the club received the title ‘Royal,’ so the Yacht List shows a
burgee about to disappear.
Jan Mertens, 19 May 2007
The date was 14 February 1891. See
http://www.rhyc.on.ca/swourstory.htm. The warrant for the ensign was
dated 11 February 1891.
David Prothero, 16 September 2009
According to the RHYC staff that I have been communicating with, there never
has been a version of the RHYC's ensign whereby the maple leaf was placed
directly under the crown. The RHYC contends that past published
illustrations showing such an ensign for the RHYC are erroneous. However, nobody
seems willing to etch that in stone.
Clay Moss, 19 May 2007