Copenhagen Row- and Kayaking Clubs (Denmark)

Københavns Ro- og Kajak Klubber

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• Amager Ro- og Kajakklub (Amager Rowing and Kayaking Club)
• B&W Roklub (B&W Rowing Club)
• Brøndby Roklub (Brøndby Rowing Club)
• Danske Studenters Roklub (Danish Students Rowing Club)
• DFDS Roklub (DFDS Rowing Club)
• Hvidovre Roklub (Hvidovre Rowing Club)
• Københavns Roklub (Copenhagen Rowing Club)
• Roklubben Gefion (The Gefion Rowing Club)
• Roklubben SAS (The SAS Rowing Club)
• Roklubben Skjold (The Shield Rowing Club)

• Denmark
• "Roning" by Morten Larsen
online available here: http://samples.pubhub.dk/9788792975201.pdf

Amager Ro- og Kajakklub

The club was established in 1931. The pennant is red with a white finial shifted to hoist. Amager is an island in the eastern end of Copenhagen.
Source: https://amagerroogkajakklub.dk/
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Feb 2021

B & W Roklub

The club was established in 1921 as MAN B&W Diesel Idrætsklub. MAN was a German lorry company, B&W is the abbreviation of Babcock and Wilcox Enterprises Inc., a company producing steam boilers, especially for ships. The headquarters are in Akron (Ohio). The company has branches in USA, Canada, UK, Denmark and Italy. The club is based in East Copenhagen. The pennant is dark blue with the white company logo shifted to hoist. The logo is a Viking ship with the "B" being the sail and the "W" being the hulk of the ship.
Source: http://bwroklub.dk/
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Feb 2021

Brøndby Roklub

The club was established in 1952. The pennant is blue with white bordures at top and bottom edge and a white disc shifted to hoist. Brøndby is one of Copenhagen´s western suburbs, Brøndby Strand is located on the shores of the Køge Bay.
Source: https://arkiv.dk/vis/67295
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Feb 2021

Danske Studenters Roklub

The club was established in 1867 and is located in East Copenhagen. The pennant is light blue, shifted to hoist is a red shield fimbriated yellow, charged with an off-centred white cross patty fimbriated yellow (of “Latin proportions”) and topped by a yellow mural crown with five visible embattlements.
Source: https://danskestudentersroklub.dk/til-vands/roning/motionsroning/
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Feb 2021

DFDS Roklub

The club is one of Denmark´s oldest rowing clubs, was established in 1884 and its base is in East København´s Langelinie yacht harbour, just a few footsteps north of the Little Mermaid Monument.
The pennant is, no surprise a triangular version of the houseflag, blue with the white cross patty shifted to hoist.
The blade is also blue with a white cross patty.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Feb 2021

Hvidovre Roklub

The club was established in 1951. The pennant is white fimbriated blue with a stylised wavy blue inscription "HvR". Hvidovre is a western suburb of København located on the shore of the Sound.
Source: this webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Mar 2021

Københavns Roklub

It is the second oldest rowing club of Denmark and was established in 1866 as a rowing club of merchants and clerks and has its current name since 1880, was a founder member of Danish Rowing Union in 1887 (Dansk Forening for Rosport) and of Danish Sports Union (Dansk Idræts-Forbund, the predecessor of Denmark´s Idræts-Forbund). It was based in the Sydhavn (South Harbour) since 1941.
The pennant is simply red.
Source: The Great Danish Lexicon
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Feb 2021

Roklubben Gefion

The club was established in 1940, is based in east Copenhagen and for women only. The pennant is red parted by a white horizontal line. Shifted to hoist is a white disc charged with a blue initial “G”. Name giver Gefion is the goddess, who according to a legend carved out Zealand from Sweden by her plough. The hole now is Vänern, a lake east of Göteborg (Gothenburg).
Source: https://roklubben-gefion.dk/om%20gefion/
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Feb 2021

Roklubben SAS

The club was established in 1951 and is based in Copenhagen. The pennant parted of white and light blue by per fess indented, over all is the dark blue prow of a Viking ship. The pattern is based on the dragon logo of the airlinr, version 1950, which had been also painted on both sides of its aeroplanes.
https://www.yumpu.com/da/document/read/18534464/velroet-april-2013pub-velroet-medlemsblad-for-roklubben-sas
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Feb 2021

Roklubben Skjold

The club was established in 1887 and is based in eastern Copenhagen. The pennant is vertically divided into eight alternating red and white stripes.
Source: https://roklubbenskjold.dk/
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Feb 2021

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