"[1] The Office of the Lord High Admiral warranted the club to use the distinguishing flag consisting of "a white ensign, with the crown and Southampton arms in the centre" in parliamentary papers from 1859.

[3] When the cornerstone of a new clubhouse was laid in 1885, the estimated cost of the planned building with land included, was about £8,000, occupying an area of about 8000 square feet, three stories high, with a basement and a tower.

[4] The planned building was further described: The design is "domestic gothic", and the premises will be of local red bricks, pointed with black mortar, the dressings being executed in red terra-cotta The building will contain a large room for the club meeting, smoking, library, chess, billiard, dining, and other rooms, while every attention has been paid to the ventilation, sanitation, and the comfort and convenience of the members.

The architect is Mr W. H. Mitchell, of Southampton ; the contractors Messrs J. Crook and Sons, of the same town, and the building, which already shows above the hoarding, is to bo ready for occupation before the end of the present year.

[4]In 1886, members celebrated the opening of the new facility, "new and extensive premises erected for the members of the club, on a portion of the land Above Bar, known as the Ogle site, in the place formerly occupied by the Circus, which building, by no means an ornament to the locality, has now given way to the large and handsome structure in future to be the headquarters of the successful Yacht Club, which had its origin in Southampton, where so many of the most superior of the British Yachting fleet have been built.