Word: launching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University launch is to be ready for delivery in ten days. It has been definitely decided to call her the "John Harvard." She is to be one foot longer than the "Frank Thomson" with about the same beam. The delay in finishing her has been caused by the necessity of waiting for a Roberts boiler, with which she is expected to obtain a high rate of speed. This boiler projects high above the rail, but, owing to the low freeboard, it will probably be no higher above the water than that of the Frank Thomson and will go under bridges...
...contract speed is 14.5 knots per hour, but a higher rate is hoped for. To obtain this a remarkably large propeller will be used, the blades of which are protected by a deep false keel. The boat differs from the new Weld launch in that she has a round stern and is intended to travel on her own wave, which it is admitted will be a large one. The Weld launch, on the contrary, is designed to make a small wave which will be of advantage to the crews...
...considered sufficient, however, so that it has now been decided to build a wooden structure and the additional sum will not be used. The building will be in all respects similar to the one that was burned except that it will not be so high. The new launch, which is to replace the Frank Thompson, is complete except for the machinery. It was thought that the machinery from the Thompson might be utilized in the new boat, but this has been found to be impracticable...
...launch, which is to replace the Frank Thomson, will be ready for use by the time the crews go on this water, about the middle of this month. The hull is already completed and has been moved to the ship-house at Lawley's, where the engine and boiler will...
...boat will be able to maintain a 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...