Royal Southern Yacht Club

The Club was formed in Southampton, where its magnificent Club house dating from 1846 still stands opposite the Royal Pier. The Club’s archives record the annual regattas, the parlous state of its finances through most of the nineteenth century, and the issues of the time. These include a request in 1914 from the Captain of the then Royal yacht to fly the Club’s burgee, which permission the Committee imperiously conceded, but only when His Majesty was actually on board ! However, long... more