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Founded in 1872 as the Munster Model Yacht Club, the Royal Munster Yacht Club 
merged with the Royal Cork Yacht Club, then dormant, 
in 1966; the name was retained in the RCYC’s official name.
One of this 
club’s feats was the introduction of the 12 foot dinghy to Ireland, locally 
built, in 1923. For many years it enjoyed the hospitality of the Cork Harbour 
Motor Yacht Club at Crosshaven.
Jan Mertens, 19 May 2011
![[Royal Munster Yacht Club burgee]](../images/i/ie~rmyc.gif) image located by Jan Mertens, 19 May 2011
 
image located by Jan Mertens, 19 May 2011
Plate CII of the French 1923 Album i.e. ‘Album des pavillons nationaux et 
des marques distinctives’ shows an undefaced Red Ensign and the burgee: 
vertically divided red-white-blue (apparently 1:1:2); a blue shield, royally 
crowned, bearing three yellow antique crowns (Munster) 
is placed in the white stripe.
The image above shows both flags while the 
burgee adorns an ashtray, here:
http://www.woodwards.ie/auctions/2011/apr11/catalogue_files/image279.jpg. 
Main sources:
http://www.royalcork.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=53
http://www.12footdinghy.org/countries/ei.asp 
Jan Mertens, 19 May 2011
![[Munster Model Yacht Club burgee]](../images/i/ie~ymmyc.gif) image by Rob Raeside, 9 November 2018
 
image by Rob Raeside, 9 November 2018
Munster Model Yacht Club
Burgee 1872 - 1886: Pennant 2:3 (print image). Blue 
field superimposed by a yellow bendwise anchor with black rode.
Source: St. 
Leger, Alicia. A History of the Royal Cork Yacht Club.
Crosshaven, Ireland, 
2005.
Peter Edwards, 19 September 2018
![[Munster Corinthian Yacht Club burgee]](../images/i/ie~ymcyc.gif) image by Rob Raeside, 9 November 2018
 
image by Rob Raeside, 9 November 2018
Burgee 1886 - 1891: Pennant 2:3 (print image). White field superimposed by a 
red bendwise anchor with a black rode.
Source: St. Leger, Alicia. A History 
of the Royal Cork Yacht Club.
Crosshaven, 2005.
Peter Edwards, 19 
September 2018
![[Munster Corinthian Yacht Club burgee]](../images/i/ie~ychmb.gif) image by Rob Raeside, 9 November 2018
 
image by Rob Raeside, 9 November 2018
Burgee 1922 - 1923.
Pennant 2:3 (print image). Blue field charged with a blue 
three-blade propeller upon a white 1 unit wide pale.
Source: St. Leger, 
Alicia. A History of the Royal Cork Yacht Club.
Crosshaven, Ireland, 2005.
Peter Edwards, 24 September 2018