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image by Rob Raeside, 1 July 2019
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Estb: 1867. Location: West 86th. Street, New York.
Burgee: Pennant circa
4:7 (print image). Red field charged with a blue star on a white equilateral
triangle (sides 2 units) based on hoist and a white star on fly.
Source:
Lloyd’s Register of American Yachts. New York, 1903
Peter Edwards,
30 June 2019
The American Yacht List for 1891 shows for the Columbia a broad pennant, with
the white field reaching to the split, and the rest of the field red. The blue
star is upright, and each of the red fields has a white upright star. A flag is
shown for the Commodore, being the same broad pennant, but rather than a blue
star it shows a 13-star circle around a fouled anchor leaning towards the top
hoist, all blue. Likewise a flag for the Vice-Commodore is shown with the charge
of the white field being a fouled anchor leaning towards the top hoist, blue.
(The anchor is larger than for the Commodore, so it does fill most of the
field.) The station is given as: 86th Street, North River, New York.
The
American Yacht List for 1895 shows for the Columbia the same broad pennant, but
it now shows three officers flags. The previous Vice-Commodore flag has become
the Read Commodore flag, while the Vice-Commodore flag is now equal to the
Commodore flag, but with the circle of stars in red.
Lloyd’s Register of
British and Foreign Shipping, Yacht Register, 1881-1902, all show that same
design for the club flag.
In 1903, Lloyd's Register of American Yachts
shows a burgee instead, as shown above. I think the blue star is intended to be
upright, though, as before, while the now single white star points towards the
fly. This is also how it's displayed in 1905.
In 1906, the design changes
slightly, in that it's depict with a slightly more shallow triangle, with it's
star a bit smaller, with both stars now of the same size and both upright. I
would expect the white and red fields are now of equal size, and the design now
gives an impression of balance.
A similar design is still shown in 1938,
but it has disappeared by 1949. It would appear that the club did not survive
WWII.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 2 July 2019
Old Yacht Clubs of the UWS (https://ilovetheupperwestside.com/old-yacht-clubs-of-the-uws) suggests that the club didn't die from fire from the enemy in WWII. Rather, they died from native unfriendly fire in 1934.
A two-tailed flag, by Wenderover Art:
https://www.wendoverart.com/wcl1531 shows a different flag as Columbia Yacht
Club.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 August 2022