Word: launching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...launch, the "Frank Thomson," arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon. It is 50 ft. 5 in. long, 1. ft. 5 in. longer than the "John Harvard," but appears much larger owing to its greater breadth and higher freeboard. It draws less water than the "John Harvard" and is not so high, two very important attributes on a river like the Charles, where there are so many mud flats and where so many of the bridges are too low to pass under at high tide. It was used yesterday afternoon and proved much faster than the "John Harvard." It has a maximum...
...Bedford 1900 and C. Brown 1900 were taken to the training table yesterday. The new launch which F. G. Thomson has presented to the crew has been shipped from Philadelphia and is now due in Cambridge...
...Bridge, the mile course. To all appearances the race was a tie between the First Freshman boat and that of the B. A. A., with the Second Freshman only a few feet behind. It was so close that many declared it a dead heat for all three crews. The launch was not abreast of the boats at the finish...
YESTERDAY Rattle hired the steam launch at the Riverside Recreation Grounds. In trying to run the engine he scalded his face, burnt his hand and jammed his toe in the crank shaft. He says he never before realized the dangers of the naval militia...
Before going out in the shell J. H. Perkins coached the second crew from the launch. Most of the men showed a tendency to hurry their slides, and although Dobyns at stroke was apt to rush his slide, the crew seemed to catch ahead of him. The order was as follows: Stroke, Dobyns; 7, Marvin; 6, Byrd; 5, Wadsworth; 4, Glidden; 3, Palmer; 2, Blake; bow, Dibblee; coxswain, Goodridge...