Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators, etc. There were only three cases of capsized boats, one of those occurring in the Woman's Singles, oddly enough. Following this race, in his capacity as referee, was James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, and aided by his gallant crew in the Newell Boat Club motor launch, Red Top, he salvaged the beat, along with its skipper...
...Summer he is sad, for what once was may never be again, and he can only smile whimsically when there is scurrying along the bank as the police launch passes...
...wonder, was the old means revived for President Roosevelt due to his physical handicap? Of course if the President is in one of the ship's launches the ship's powerful electric cranes can easily take aboard the launch and all its occupants...
...even Bostonians don't know about. Her first summer attraction is, of course, salt water, and this means the harbor. Few people know that there is a chance to take part in the harbor life every Tuesday and Friday morning from the first of June through September, when the launch of the Seaman's Friend Society makes the rounds of the harbor ships and heaves packages of magazines and books aboard each. The launch leaves from a float under the Chariestown end of the Charlestown bridge--the big one that the elevated goes over--and two large signs identify...
...private cruises there is a "water taxi" stand in back of the South Station and another at Charlestown, under the old Warren Bridge, which is north of the one the Seaman's Friend launch sails from. The Charlestown taxis are extremely inexpensive, in fact fifteen cents takes you a long way. You can just cruise, going way out to Brewster if the weather is good, or you can take along a lunch and be left to spend the day on Governor's Island or Peddockls, Governor's Island has the ruins of old Fort Winthrop, and is large and explorable...