Word: hull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trip from New York. Mr. Charles R. Cowley of Brooklyn was the builder of the launch. The dimensions are as follows: Length, 45 feet, beam 7 feet, draft 30 inches aft, 18 inches for ward, cockpit for and aft, accommodation for from fifteen to twenty passengers. The hull is made of white cedar planking, copper fastened throughout, but the keel, frames and waining are made of white oak. The decks are of white pine. The boiler is of sectional steel pipe tested to four hundred pounds hydraulic pressure. The engine can develope fifty horse power at six hundred revolutions...
...increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan of a ship railway was declared by engineers impracticable for mechanical reasons and by seamen, on account of the strain imposed on a vessels hull by lifting it out of water. The Panama canal has proved impossible on account of a river near it which cannot be controlled, and the canal by way of lake Nicaragua is left in sole possession of the field...
...been in course of construction this year under the supervision of E. Waters and Sons, at Troy, N. Y., reached New Haven last week. It is finished in very light color and is a very pretty craft. The boat weighs less than eight-oared shells usually do. The hull has not been constructed as was ordered, and the paper has not hardened enough to make the boat rigid. It is not likely the boat can be used, and it will have to be returned to Waters. It is not yet known what shell the Yale crew will...
Camp, '80, and Hull, '83, played on the Yale teams for six years, and Baker, '77, five years...
...Hale, '91. Buckingham could not touch the disk at 8 ft. 6 3-4 in., and Hale at the following height. Hale thus took the event with a kick of 8 ft. 6 3-4 in. The flying rings was the next event. M. F. Pillsbury, 89; M. D. Hull, '89; Barney, '90; Myers, '90, and Henderson, '91, were the contestants. Pillsbury was given first place and Hull second. The tumbling was well done. After some very creditable work, Myers dropped out, leaving Barney and Henderson to work for first place. The judges were unable to tell which...