Word: launching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...steam launch has been entirely refitted during the winter, the repairs, especially to the machinery, having been extensive and complete. The forward deck has been cut out to extend the seating capacity of the boat, and much of the woodwork renewed. It is not thought the launch will be put into the water until after the spring recess...
...launch which was built for Yale last year at a cost of $2,300 has proved a failure...
...clad little promontory that juts out into the river, to be the property of the University Boat Club, the fullest requirements of the Crew would be met; for they are undisturbed here by the visits of strangers and idlers, and very few reporters make their appearance; while the steam launch proved invaluable last year as a means of quick communication with New London, for doing errands and getting provisions. It is to be hoped that before long an especial fund may be subscribed for erecting suitable quarters for our Crew, as it seems to be improbable that the annual receipts...
...Yale Alumni have presented the Boat Club a steam launch warranted to run twenty miles an hour...
...Race with Yale should absorb almost all the enthusiasm of the persons in and out of College who are interested in rowing, and it must nearly always happen, as was the case last year, that the Freshmen will row to very small audiences. With the increased expense of the launch, the cost of maintaining the University Crew is considerably augmented; and, as our contributor points out, the Freshman Class might transfer the bulk of their subscriptions from their class crew to the 'Varsity, if they rowed no intercollegiate race. At any rate, whatever the advantages in Freshman races as regards...