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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 upper hoist black, lower hoist red, fly quarters 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
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 June 2022
The Port Nicholson Yacht Club was founded 1884. First known burgee is the
quartered black over red.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 June
2022
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 June 2022
The Te Aro Sailing Club (1907,
https://rpnyc.org.nz/blog/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-thorndon-dinghy-sailing-club)
was given as quartered light blue over white. I'm not sure whether there would
be any physical evidence of that colour determining the details of the original.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 June
2022
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 June 2022
The Te Ruru Yacht Club (no date so far) would have a blue coloured anchor on
white. Sources vary on whether the eventual anchor was fouled or not, and blue
doesn't show too well in black and white. It is difficult to determine the
details of the original.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 June
2022
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 June 2022
Those three merged, 1915-1917, depending on the source. After they did, and while the war lasted, they may have used a temporary combination of the three burgees. An example of what it might look like is provided by Port Nicholson. (For some reason it doesn't seem to create my version of the picture.
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 June 2022
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 June 2022For 1922, Lloyds' Register of Yachts show the merged burgee of the Port
Nicholson Yacht Club. Black over red in the hoist, blue in the fly, with a white
cross overall, bearing a tilted anchor. (Not fouled!)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 June
2022