The Royal Ulster Yacht Club is located in Bangor, County Down,

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, on the south shore of

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History

The club was established in 1866 as the

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Yacht Club, on the impetus of

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (21 June 182612 February 1902) was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society. In his youth he was a popular figure in the court of Queen Vict ...

.Bangor History
In 1869 it received a royal warrant.nio.gov.uk
The land for the clubhouse was purchased in 1897 and built by architect Vincent Craig (brother of the 1st Lord Craigavon). The boating grocer, Sir Thomas Lipton, being blackballed from the

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, launched his America's Cup bid from the RUYC in 1898. Lipton continued to sail from the Royal Ulster until 1929; his legacy being the Lipton Room. Today the club's patron is Queen Elizabeth II (a position she has held since 1953) and the commodore is Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. RUYC was visited by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1961, with the

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competing in the Regatta. The duke returned to the club in 2006. The club is one of the clubs on the lough that form part of the Belfast Lough Yachting Conference.

External links

Royal Ulster Yacht Club

References

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