burgee

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Bertarelli's catamaran, sailing under the burgee of the Societe Nautique de Geneve from landlocked Switzerland, is the width of two tennis courts and has a tilting mast that towers 17 storeys high.

From Reuters • Feb. 4, 2010

But in 1899 came Sir Thomas Lipton, flying the burgee of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, rescuer-hero of the Titanic disaster,* flew his newly-acquired Commodore's burgee from the mainmast as the Cunard flagship Berengaria entered New York harbor.

From Time Magazine Archive

With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth.

From Time Magazine Archive

The boat carried no signal mast, but flag-poles at bow and stern and abaft the bridge deck frame held the Union Jack, the yacht ensign and the club burgee.

From The Adventure Club Afloat by Barbour, Ralph Henry