Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...launch, purchased from the Lawley Yacht Company of Dorchester, and reputed to be second only to the Patricia in speed, has been secured by the crew management as an addition to the equipment of motor launches. The new boat is the sixth to be acquired, and thus gives a launch to each coach...
This was the gasoline launch that succored "John Harvard" the other day when she lost her smokestack. Yesterday in a driving wind the modern motor broke down and Coach Haines and his driver were driven ashore just below the Watertown Arsenal. But the distressed vessel did not appeal for help to the racy "Patricia" or to the "Brown Pup" or to the "White Pup". She was content to wait for the "John Harvard", which steamed majestically homeward against the wind, towing its now abject competitor behind...
Although the occupants of the motor launch "Class of '92" could not see anything wrong with the steam launch "John Harvard" as the Latter boat lay stranded, in the middle of the Charles, and thought the frantic waving of Coach Newell and the others in a boat a part of some joke, closer inquiry disclosed that the smoke-stack of the steam launch had blown off and sunk to the bottom of the river. The "John Harvard" was no longer able to keep up team, and lay drifting helplessly in the middle of the Charles. The boat was towed back...
...Watertown,--their shell struck a piece of ice, which punched a small hole amidships. The shell rapidly filled and before the crew could pull ashore, the water had nearly reached the gunwales. The men jumped into the water and abandoned the shell to Coach Stevens in his launch. Theoretically, they ran back to the boathouse, but it is rumored that nine men in dripping rowing togs arrived at Newell shortly after the accident in automobiles...
...thaw of the past two days resulted in the clearing away of the ice pack in front of Newell boathouse, and a float was pulled over to Weld, where open water gave opportunity to launch barges and the punt. The punt was transferred to Newell, where the Freshmen set out rowing about 4 o'clock. By 5 o'clock, an acre of ice lodged between Newell and the Lars Anderson bridge, and consequently University oarsmen had to ply between Lars Anderson and Western Avenue bridges, the latter also being blocked...