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Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, New Zealand.
Established 1883 in
Wellington as Port Nicholson Yacht Club.
1896. Plain Blue Ensign. Burgee
quartered black and red.
1921. Granted title ‘royal’.
Burgee: white cross
on burgee quartered first black, second blue, third red, fourth blue; crown in
canton, blue plain anchor, inclined towards hoist, in centre of white cross.
The image is from the 1928
Flaggenbuch. In the 1923 Album des Pavillions Nationaux the burgee has the white
cross and anchor, but no crown, and the fly quarters are black. This may be an
error, or perhaps the white cross and anchor were added at some time before the
title ‘royal’ was granted and a crown put in the canton?
1999. Probably
changed to New Zealand Yacht Ensign, but still in Navy List 2009.
David
Prothero, 10 February 2015
Port Nicholson was the original (and still official, I think) name for
Wellington Harbour, at the southern tip of the North Island. The term still
lives on in the names of several companies and organisations, and its Maori
corruption ("Poneke", a Maorification of "Port Nicky") as the name of several
sports teams and other groups.
James Dignan, 1 March 2015