Kingston Rowing Club, England

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• About the club and its flag

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About the club and its flag

The Kingston Rowing Club (KRC) is a rowing club in England founded in 1858. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Rowing_Club

Its logo consists of an image of a flying flag: a vertical triband of red and white with the three initials of the club’s name on each panel, as serifless capitals of the contrasting color.

The club’s official oars blade (arguably a symbol of greater semaphoric significance for rowing clubs than their flags) is crimson and the logo https://www.kingstonrc.co.uk/themes/custom/canbury/images/krc-flag.svg at the official website is accordingly dark red. This vectorial official image was copied to illustrate the Wikipedia article on the club, to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kingston_Rowing_Club_Flag.svg and it was met with preference for an apparently previous logo, still at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KRC_Flag.jpg (discussion at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:KRC_Flag.jpg), the logo from the official website being deemed too dark, not reflecting the "KRC colours", which are "scarlet". Either this commenter is wrong or there was an official change from crimson to scarlet, or the website creators were allowed artistic license. I could not find any photos of actual flags.

António Martins-Tuválkin , 18 April 2024