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Baltimore Yacht Club (U.S.)

Maryland

1891 club
- Variant flag report
1938 club

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1891 Club

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 June 2015

The Baltimore Yacht Club is listed in Lloyd's Register of American Yachts of 1903 as organised and incorporated in 1891.

Its burgee is depicted as a ca. 4:7 triangle, quartered orange and black charged with a cross bottony counterchanged, all aligned on a line 5/12th of the hoist away from the hoist.

Mention is made of an officer's flag for the Commodore, but there's no description of the design. (Motorboating, July 1947)

I've found no mention of this club after 1927.

Variant flag report

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 June 2015

Curiously, the American Tobacco Co.; Recruit Little Cigars trading card series Flags of All Nations had a card for the Baltimore Yacht Club, which differed in details, but most noticeably was yellow and blue. See the New York Library Digital Collections: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-2c4e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 June 2015

1938 Club

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 June 2015

A new Baltimore Yacht Club, www.baltimoreyachtclub.org, was established in 1938 and incorporated in 1939. Its station since 1939 is Sue Island, Baltimore Country, Maryland.

The burgee of the new club is similar to that of the old club: A ca. 2:3 triangle, quartered orange and black charged with a cross bottony counterchanged. Though Lloyd's of 1963 pictures it with the cross wholly symmetrical and touching three sides, the actual flags have such a cross slightly further flyward, leaving a small gap between the cross and the hoist.

A photograph at Zorrolist, www.zorrolist.com/baltimore-yacht-club/about, suggests the club flag is of the same design, and exceptionally is even in the same ratio.

The club uses the common officers' flags for Commodore, Vice-Commodore, Rear Commodore and Yacht Fleet Captain. The website also includes icons showing the flags for Secretary, Treasurer, Fleet Chaplain, and Fleet Surgeon, but since it doesn't actually list a Treasurer as an officer but rather an Honorary Commodore. I'm not sure in these cases actual flags are used. The club also has a Princess, but again I don't know whether she has her own flag.

Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 June 2015