Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marques de Estella, Duque de Ajdur and Dictator of Spain, a spectator, laughed softly on the deck of another ship. . . . At the Maritime Club it was reported that one of the yachts from the U. S. had been sighted. King Alfonso leaped in a launch and put-putted out into the bay. Twenty minutes later, he came back and shouted through a megaphone: "It's only a tourist's yacht. Good jest...
...coaching launch "Patricia" has not yet arrived here, although it was expected last Tuesday. The weather has held it up, and meanwhile the "Class of 1892" and the "Black Pup," the latter Coach Brown's customary point of vantage, have been plying the waters of the Thames...
Since the disappearance of the new launch "Red Top" in the Cape Cod Bay it has been decided to order another speed launch to take the place of the ill-fated craft intended for the use of Coach E. J. Brown '96, head coach of the Harvard University crew squad...
Unfortunately there will not be time enough for the completion of the boat this spring and the "John Harvard", which was to be scrapped on the arrival of the new launch will see another season's service on the Charles River...
...body of its builder was subsequently found on the shore at Scituate. Since then, two southwesters, a boat-hook, and a hatch-cover from the ill-fated launch have been discovered by searchers, making it apparent that the "Red Top" was capsized, either by a heavy head-wind or collision with some obstacle...