This history of the club is taken in the main from a series of notes compiled by Donald Stuart Tod in 1986 from a collection of minute books from meetings of the club dating back to 1905.
In 1888, the Mersey Canoe Club sailed and raced canoes in what was then Tranmere Bay – this has now been mainly filled in for docks used by the Shell Oil terminal. There were a number of half decked sailing boats moored in the bay and they banded together to form a sailing club. Some of the canoe club members (Dr Hayward, D. MacIver, C Livingstone and P. Nisbet) were well known for sailing as well and became members of the club at its inception so they may well have been instrumental in its formation.
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