NAMING A YACHT
, INTREPID YOUNG WOMAN V• - V ;c p NEW YORK, - July - IQ. : , Miss May Gould, of Boston, is not the daughter of an Admiralty lawyer and descendant ,of a long lino of . marines for nothing. Nor is she ignorant of what happens to -a vessel which goes to seas unchristened. And so, .at Thomaston, Maine, when she failed- to break a bottle of champagne over the bows of her ‘‘father's- new schooner yacht as. she: slid-, down the ways, Miss Gould ran to the end of the spillway and, accoutred as she was—white linen suit, hat, shoos,.'and all—she plunged into the harbour in pursuit of the vessel. Three hundred feet out she caught up with; the yacht, and this time, with a vigorous. smash- of the bottle that sent champagne streaming all over her bow, christened her - Segochet.
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Evening Star, Issue 21784, 28 July 1934, Page 11
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140NAMING A YACHT Evening Star, Issue 21784, 28 July 1934, Page 11
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