Word: draught
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Francis G. Peabody preached in Appleton Chapel last night, taking as the text for his sermon the fourth and fifth verses from the fifth chapter of St. Luke: "He said unto Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all night and taken nothing; nevertheless at they word I will let down...
This occasion of the "draught of fishes" was not the first time Jesus had met Simon Peter and his companions. There on the shore of Galilee he had found them before and talked with them, but they, never realizing the scope and meaning of his message, had heard, and gone back, as though nothing had happened, to their old way of life. "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught," he said...
...much higher rate of speed than the Frank Thomson, and will not settle at the stern as the old launch did when going at full speed. Her dimensions are as follows: Length over all, 51 feet; length on water line, 50 feet; freeboard, three feet and a half; draught, 3 feet...