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![[Royal Irish Yacht Club flag]](../images/i/ie~yriyc.gif)
image by Graham Bartram, 8 February 2011See also:
Ensign is white, the national flag in the canton, yellow lady harp, crowned,
in the lower fly.
Jan Mertens, 8 February 2011
![[Royal Irish Yacht Club flag]](../images/i/ie~riyc.gif)
image by Martin Grieve, 21 December 2005
Details of the ensign were reproduced in "Papers Relating to Yacht Clubs" published by order of the House of Commons, 22 July 1859.
"By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c.
Whereas we deem it expedient that the vessels belonging to the Royal Irish Yacht
Club shall be permitted to wear a burgee and ensign, as described on the diagram
opposite, on board their respective vessels : We do therefore by virtue of the
power and authority vested in us hereby warrant and authorise a burgee and
ensign as described on the diagram to be worn on board the respective vessels
belonging to the Royal Irish Yacht Club accordingly.
Given under our hands and the Seal of Office of Admiralty the 17th day of
October 1831.
(signed) G.H.L.Dundas. S.J.B.Pechell
By command of their Lordships. (Signed by a Secretary)"
The diagram was an asymmetric cross on a rectangle, as reproduced in the image
above. The word 'red' had been printed on each arm of the cross, with the
quarters one to four marked 'Union Jack', 'White', Arms of Ireland, and 'White'
respectively.
David Prothero, 21 December 2005
![[Royal Irish Yacht Club flag]](../images/i/ie~riyc1.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 August 2022
It is uncertain if the arrangement of the quarters as described above results in
the Arms of Ireland in the lower fly or lower hoist quarter. A possible
alternative arrangement is shown here.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,
31 August 2022
The material has been digitised by Google as part of a larger volume of
miscellaneous Parliamentary Papers:
https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/
The part on yacht clubs
consists of correspondence between the Admiralty and a number of yacht clubs
concerning the flying of a defaced White Ensign by the clubs as their ensign, a
privilege originally granted to the Royal Yacht Club (now Royal Yacht Squadron),
but which had also been granted to some other clubs, probably in error. The
correspondence mostly consists of letters from the yacht clubs affected,
protesting about the withdrawal of the WE warrants.
The drawing is one page
435 of the digitised volume, and is the same as is shown on the FOTW site [with
the Irish harp in the lower hoist quadrant].
There isn't a written
description, only a diagram. The
piece of correspondence states:
'By the Commissioners for executing the
Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
&c.
'WHEREAS we deem it expedient that
the vessels belonging to the Royal Irish Yacht Club shall be permitted to wear a
burgee and ensign, as described on the diagram opposite, on board their
respective vessels ; we do, therefore, by virtue power and authority vested in
us, hereby warrant and authorise a burgee and and ensign, as described on the
diagram to be worn on board the respective vessels belonging to the Royal Irish
Yacht Club accordingly.
'Given under our hands and the Seal of the Office of
Admiralty the 17th day of October 1831.'
Ian Sumner, 1 September
2022
![[Royal Irish Yacht Club flag]](../images/i/ie~riyc2.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 August 2022
This ensign was replaced on 10 August 1846 by a Blue Ensign with yellow crown
and harp in the fly. This ensign is still current (or was in 2009) and available
for any British registered vessel owned by a member of the Royal Irish Yacht
Club.
David Prothero, 9 February 2011
![[Royal Irish Yacht Club burgee]](../images/i/ie~riycb.gif)
image by Graham Bartram, 8 February 2011
Source:
http://www.flags.net/IREL14.htm
The Dumpy Book of Ships and the Sea (1957)
shows the burgee blue with a lady harp surmounted by a crown.
James Dignan, 12 February 2008
A clickable drawing appears on Wikipedia as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Irish_Yacht_Club
Jan Mertens, 8 February 2011
