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A blue ensign with the club badge.
image by Clay Moss, 23 June 2014
The Poole Harbour Yacht Club was formed in 1938, and granted a defaced Blue
Ensign in 1950. The entry in Colours of the Fleet has, “There is currently some
debate as to the continued entitlement of the Poole Harbour Yacht Club to
qualify for its ensign because of recent constitutional changes in the
management of the club.” It was still in the latest Navy List that I have seen
(2009).
David Prothero, 22 August 2014
From the Internet in general, and more or less from the club, I'd say that
Poole Harbour Yacht Club was founded in 1949. There are references to the club
being used in WWII, but tracing these seems to always lead to The Harbour Club
and Hotel, indeed also located at the Salterns, and by now swallowed by the
Marina, I think. Somewhere in the 1980s, the club changed into a company, Poole
Harbour Yacht Club Ltd. As far as I can tell the company leased all the berths
of the Salterns Marina, while claiming not to be the same entity.
In 2014
The Salterns Marina "relaunched" the Poole Harbour Yacht Club to give their
berth holders additional benefits. I can't help but wonder why they can't give
those berth holders those benefits on account of them being berth holders, but
that's probably just me, who could buy a boat from the rate for one year at
Salterns. More importantly: What happened to the club that existed before that
re-launch? (http://salterns.co.uk/the-club.html)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 August 2014
The website is wrong. Poole Harbour Yacht Club sought permission to have a
particular design on their burgee. The Home Office thought that the design could
be mistaken for a royal crown, and permission was refused in a letter dated 10
May 1938. [National Archives HO 144/21127] Perhaps 1949 was when the club
re-opened after being closed during the war?
David Prothero, 27
August 2014