Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working well together. There was a slight delay in getting the boat into the water due to the fact that the float, which started leaking in the afternoon sank to the bottom of the river before it could be saved. This mishap made it necessary for the crew to launch the boat from the bank and most of the oarsmen were thoroughly drenched in the process...
...easy to picture a high official of the Canadian Government riding across the Detroit River in a launch laden with Canadian liquor and a crew of day-to-day rum-runners. Yet such was the picture actually described last week in the Canadian House of Commons at Ottawa by William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue. The high official had been himself; the time, lately. His picture was as follows...
...London, Conn., June 2--The oarsmen of the first two University eights accompanied by coaches, managers, riggers, launch drivers, and miscellaneous attendants arrived here late this afternoon and proceded upstream by launch to the new quarters recently completed...
...Patricia" arrived today after the sea trip from Boston. The weather conditions favored the big Harvard launch with a comparatively easy voyage and it concluded its extended run apparently none the worse for its battle with the elements...
Managers--H. H. Johnston '29, R. F. W. Smith '30, P. H. Clark '30, R. L. Scott '31. Waiters--David Shaw '29, F. S. Holmes '31, W. M. Rainbolt ocC., W. M. Dunn '30, Richard Kimball '31, M. L. Bell '30. Launch drivers--Fiske Rawlins '30, Arthur Sims. Rigger--Edgar Dennison. Boat builder--William Lutz. Retainers--B. S. Clark, John Simpson...