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Ambrose Channel Yacht Club (U.S.)

New York

Burgee, 1913
Burgee, 1917

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Burgee, 1913

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 May 2015

MotorBoating, January 1912 told the reader: At a meeting held early November, at the Hotel Imperial, the Ambrose Channel Yacht Club was organised with a membership of nearly 50. The club has secured the lease of a pier and a clubhouse, at Bath Beach, Brooklyn, N. Y. ...

One year later, 19 January 1913, apparently the club's anniversary was celebrated. The menu, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c6d5d0ca-e34c-54db-e040-e00a18063df6, mentions on the cover that the club is now incorporated and it shows the club's badge, which includes a burgee: A white field, with a red capital A, the legs as a border to the field and the bar angled flyward, with three small blue five-pointed stars pointing upwards, of which two in the hoistward panel and one in the flyward panel.

Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 May 2015

Burgee, 1917

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 May 2015

The club is listed in Lloyd's Register of American Yachts of 1917, indeed as organised in 1911 and incorporated in 1912 with as its station: Foot Bay 22d Street, Bath Beach, Brooklyn, N. Y. Gravesend Bay. The depiction of the burgee differs from the one on the badge; most notably it has the ends of the angled bar in the hoistward corners of the burgee, and the flyward star is pointing downwards.

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 May 2015

The image has an added note that isn't very readable in the scans I looked at, but says something like: "design altered (seen page 19)." Indeed, after the gallery of Yacht Club burgees are included a few more burgees that apparently couldn't be included in their proper location, and among these is another entry showing the burgee of the Ambrose Channel, this time with the bar ends on the edges rather than the corners, but now without stars.

It's possible that these are all real developments, but the combination gives the impression of communication problems between the club and the register.

Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 May 2015