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![[Royal Forth Yacht Club ensign]](../images/g/gb~4th.gif)
image by Clay Moss, 23 July 2007See also:
Formerly Forth Yacht Club (1872).
In 1957 the Royal Forth absorbed the Almond Yacht Club (1897).
Ref: http://www.rfyc.org/wp-content/uploads/History.pdf
Peter Edwards, 8 October 2017
The Royal Forth Yacht Club has a website that can be found at
http://www.rfyc.org/Home/tabid/37/Default.aspx. I'm not persuaded that this
image is entirely correct. Thus far, I have visited almost every Scottish yacht
club website and have found no evidence that said visiting yacht clubs are
actually utilizing the Scottish crown in any way. Most Scottish yacht clubs fly
the undefaced blue ensign while their burgees will feature the St. Edward's
crown
Clay Moss, 23 July 2007
From the Royal Forth Yacht Club, their General Rules,
November
2014 and
November 2016 specify:
The Club Ensign, to be worn only by yachts holding
an Admiralty warrant or Club permit, shall be the blue Ensign of Her Majesty's
Fleet bearing the gold Maltese Cross surmounted by a crown.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
‘The Royal Forth is celebrating its 150th birthday this year [2018] . . . Although the club was formed in 1868 as the Granton Sailing Club, its predecessor, The Eastern Regatta Club, was founded in Edinburgh in 1835, with the first regatta held off Leith the following year.”
Source: "Royal Forth Yacht Club celebrations.” RYA Members' Magazine Autumn 2018: 24.
Peter Edwards, 3 September 2018
![[Royal Forth Yacht Club burgee]](../images/g/gb~4thb.gif)
image by Clay Moss, 23 July 2007
From the Royal Forth Yacht Club, their General Rules,
November
2014 and
November 2016 specify:
The Club Burgee shall be blue, bearing a gold
Maltese Cross, surmounted by a crown.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
![[Royal Forth Yacht Club]](../images/g/gb~4tha.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
From the Royal Forth Yacht Club, their General Rules,
November
2014 and
November 2016 specify:
The Admiral's pennant shall be a white
swallow-tail pennant bearing the gold Maltese Cross and crown.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
![[Royal Forth Yacht Club]](../images/g/gb~4thv.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
From the Royal Forth Yacht Club, their General Rules,
November
2014 and
November 2016 specify:
The Vice Admiral’s Pennant shall be as for the
Admiral’s Pennant but bearing in addition, one red ball.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
![[Royal Forth Yacht Club]](../images/g/gb~4thc.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
From the Royal Forth Yacht Club, their General Rules,
November
2014 and
November 2016 specify:
The Commodore's Pennant shall be a blue
swallow-tail pennant bearing the gold Maltese Cross and crown.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
![[Royal Forth Yacht Club]](../images/g/gb~4thw.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
From the Royal Forth Yacht Club, their General Rules,
November
2014 and
November 2016 specify:
The Vice Commodore's Pennant shall be as for the
Commodore's Pennant but bearing in addition one white ball.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
![[Royal Forth Yacht Club]](../images/g/gb~4thr.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
From the Royal Forth Yacht Club, their General Rules,
November
2014 and
November 2016 specify:
The Rear Commodore's Pennant shall be as for the
Commodore's Pennant but bearing in addition two white balls.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
![[Royal Forth Yacht Club]](../images/g/gb~4thp.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
From the Royal Forth Yacht Club, their General Rules,
November
2014 and
November 2016 specify:
A Retired Commodore's Flag shall be a rectangular
Blue flag bearing the gold Maltese Cross and crown.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
From the Royal Forth Yacht Club, their General Rules,
November
2014 and
November 2016 specify:
The Admiral's pennant shall be a white
swallow-tail pennant bearing the gold Maltese Cross and crown.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
The Britannia was granted a special dispensation in 1998 by the Secretary of State for Defence, by formal Warrant, to fly the Union Flag as a Jack. The
Britannia also wears a defaced Blue Ensign, the special ensign of the Royal Forth Yacht Club, of which the owning organisation is a member.
Source: message by FOURO at
http://www.merchant-navy.net, 26 February 2017
Peter Edwards, 8
October 2017
![[Royal Forth Yacht Club]](../images/g/gb~yfyc.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
Location: Granton, Scotland.
Established: 4 April 1872 (Formerly Granton
Yacht Club - 1866).
Burgee: Pennant 1:2 Red field superimposed by White cross
pattee.
Refs: Lloyd's Register of Yachts, 1880.
http://www.rfyc.org/wp-content/uploads/History.pdf
Peter Edwards,
7 October 2017.
In the 1902 edition of the Yacht Register, the club is covered on plate 9 as
"Royal Forth Yacht Club." "Est. 1868". Indeed, the history document Peter refers
to gives 16th of May 1868. I would argue that this is indeed the starting date
of the club. I expect 1866 is a typo for 1868, and the way I read the history,
the new name of the 4th of April 1972, like the one in 1883, was just a name
change, but referred to the same club: Granton Yacht Club, Forth Yacht Club, and
Royal Forth Yacht Club.
The first flag of the Royal Forth was unfurled in
1883, but Peter Edwards shows that this was not the very first flag of the club,
merely the first under that name, and indeed related to that name. No mention is
made of the adoption of that earlier flag or of earlier flags, nor of the
warrant for flying a defaced Blue Ensign.
The club absorbed the Royal
Eastern and the Almond. We cover the Royal Eastern.
As I see it, it's unlikely that club was ever anything but (expecting to be)
Royal, and will not have had an earlier burgee. The club also absorbed the
Almond Yacht Club, marginally too soon for most of my flag books, but eventually
I found Colin Stewart pictures an Almond Yacht Club, in the British Isles and
Eire, as a blue burgee with a five pointed star over a fouled anchor, but
yellow. If there were other flags for these clubs, I don't know about them.
For the Royal Forth itself, their General Rules,
November
2014 and
November 2016 specify:
XX CLUB FLAGS
(a) The Club Ensign, to be worn only by yachts holding
an Admiralty warrant or Club permit, shall be the blue Ensign of Her Majesty's
Fleet bearing the gold Maltese Cross surmounted by a crown.
(b) Yachts belonging to members shall always wear the Club burgee when on
the station of the Club and during Regattas and other meetings unless engaged in
a race.
(c) Yachts belonging to members while on hire to non-members
shall not be considered as belonging to the Club, not entitled to the privileges
of the Club and must not wear the Club Flags.
![[Royal Forth Yacht Club burgee]](../images/g/gb~4th.jpg)
image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017
As there is some doubt on
the page about the type of crown to be used, I include the entry in Lloyd's,
showing how the Yacht Register pictured the flags in 1902.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 9 October 2017