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The Southern Yacht Club was founded in 1849, at Pass Christian, Mississippi, USA. This makes them the second oldest USA yacht club, behind the New York Yacht Club. In 1857 they changed their location to New Orleans, with Lake Pontchartrain as their home waters. After the Restoration and the events that went before that, they eventually built a clubhouse on the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain. Since then, ever fifty years or so, they built a new clubhouse, as circumstances would dictate. [5]
The current burgee of the Southern is an approximately 2:3 blue burgee, with
white flyward edges. On the blue in white is the text "S.Y.C." in all-caps.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
Though the current burgee was already shown in use in 1903 [1], previously
the burgee looked somewhat differently. In 1896 [2] it was a broad pennant along
the same lines.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
This entry [2] also depicts three officer's flags: Commodore, vice-commodore
and rear commodore. Each of these is a decrescent moon tilted upward accompanied
of three five-pointed stars 2 and 1. Commodore is white on blue, vice-commodore
is white on red, and rear commodore is red on white. At the least the
commodore's flag was still in use as of 2018. [3]
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 29 June 2022
Commodore, vice-commodore and rear commodore had a different design before
that, in 1891. Each of these was a straight increscent moon accompanied of three
five-pointed stars 2 and 1. Commodore is white on blue, vice-commodore is white
on red, and rear commodore is red on white. [4] This may or may not have been
the first officer's flag of the Southern, though it should be noticed that it
was only in 1854 that the term "commodore" was used [5]. Obviously, by 1896 it
had been changed.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
Apparently at some point, which even the club don't seem to know, their
By-Laws gave in and joined the bland flags used by the majority. Then in 2013,
people apparently came to their senses and approved the unique flags of the SYC
again. As the standard flags had since become a set of four, a specific
pseudo-old-style flag was adopted for the Past Commodore.
Thus, the note
that "At the least the commodore's flag was still in use as of 2018. [3]" is not
correct. Instead, since 2018 is after 2013, "At the least the commodore's flag
was again in use as of 2018. [3]"
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 29 June 2022
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020
1 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts [1903-4]
2 The American Yacht List -
Thomas Manning [1896]
3 Article with photograph behind a paywall at
www.nola.com
4 The American Yacht List -
Thomas Manning [1891]
5 A Brief
History:
http://www.southernyachtclub.org/Default.aspx?pageid=384486
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 May 2020