Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Nina sailed into Santander the people, waiting on their launches to see the end of the race, mistook her for the larger* Atlantic which arrived an hour later. The Atlantic, as well as the Pinta, felt last week the force of stormier winds than those which touched them in July. Gerard Lambert, her owner, received a radio from the captain who was sailing back from Cowes to the U. S.; two days before the hurricane reached Porto Rico, he reported that he had encountered ari 80-mile gale, the worst in his experience. His radio message was brief...
...Frank Thompson, a new launch purchased by the Athletic Association to replace the ill-fated launch which disappeared with two men last spring off Minot's light, purred up to the float at Newell Boat House Tuesday afternoon following a two day trip from Greenport, Long Island...
...launch, to be used by coaches of the University crews, was piloted north on the seacoast by one man, and, though twice threatened with rough water which caused it to put in, no accidents resulted...
...Dubuc, parish priest of Lavigne. Would they come, the priest enquired, to have supper with him? Afterward, perhaps they would all go boating on the lake. So Albert La Frenière and the rest went to supper with the priest and later, in a gasoline launch, out across the close darkness of the lake. It was a warm, calm evening; everyone was apparently in the best of humor; no accident occurred to mar their merriment until when they had proceeded for about a mile the motor began to backfire. Father Dubuc leaned down to see what was wrong. There...
...Fuego, and it may be that the Piarros burial tradition is a vestige from an Oriental migration. To check for the Museum of the American Indian, Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey and his wife are now on their way to Trinidad, base for a 1,000 mile voyage by launch and canoe up the Orinoco...