British Yachts and Yachtsmen – the Yacht Clubs

  Among the more important yacht clubs, the Royal Cinque Ports is a comparatively juvenile organization, having been founded in 1872. It soon, however, took its […]

The Royal Munster Yacht Club is now in the thirty-fifth year of its existence, having been founded in the month of August, 1872. It makes Monkstown […]

There was no yacht club on the East Coast of England before the year 1843, but on September 28 of that year one was formed at […]

The Royal Mersey Yacht Club was founded in Liverpool in July, 1844, when a meeting was held in Liverpool, and the club was inaugurated under the […]

The Royal London Yacht Club, although not having such an interesting history as the older metropolitan organization, the Royal Thames, came into existence very similarly —that […]

The Royal Irish Yacht Club was founded early in the year 1846. At a meeting of yachtsmen held in Dublin in the following year it was […]

The Royal St. George was founded in 1846, or, rather, it would be more correct to say that the Royal Kingstown Yacht Club was formed in […]

March 2, 1846, was an eventful day for Ryde, for it witnessed no less a ceremony than the laying of the foundation-stone of the Royal Victoria […]

The Royal Welsh Yacht Club was founded in 1847 under the following circumstances : Previous to this year there had been several regattas held at Carnarvon, […]