page_title: Compagnia della Vela
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Compagnia della Vela / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Il Moro di Venezia I (ITA-1) moored in North Vancouver
context_page_description: Compagnia della Vela is a yacht club in Venice, in northern Italy. The club was the "Challenger of Record" for the 1992 America's Cup, where they were represented by their team Il Moro di Venezia, and won the 1992 Louis Vuitton Cup.
context_section_description: Founded on March 15, 1911 as a Venetian Yacht Club, among its members it included Gabriele d'Annunzio who, in a message dated 1919 (the original is kept in the company headquarters), inspired the new name "Compagnia della Vela" and the motto Custodi Domine Vigilantes;  the club uses the initials "CDV."
  With the patent of December 1933, the King of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele III, granted the Company the privilege to display the Royal Coat of Arms (Stemma Reale), in addition to the honor of bearing the National War Flag and being renamed the Royal Company of Sailing.
  Taking the current name of Compagnia della Vela at the advent of the Republic of Italy in 1948, to date the social guidone (burgee) consists of a white cross on a red field, with a green canton filling the upper quarter at the hoist.
  In 1990 the Compagnia della Vela received from the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) the Silver Star for sporting merit. In 1995, the CONI awarded the Compagnia della Vela their Gold Star for sporting merit. In 2012 the Compagnia della Vela received the Golden Collar for sporting merit.
caption: Il Moro di Venezia shot in 2013.
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