St Edmund Hall Boat Club (commonly abbreviated to SEHBC) is a rowing club for members of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. It is based in its own boathouse on the Isis. History The early days According to one of the many blades in the boathouse, SEHBC was established in 1861. There is also a crew photograph dating from 1863. SEHBC first entered a crew in Summer Eights in 1861, starting the bottom of the then 16 boat single Division, and getting one bump. SEHBC first finished ahead of the University Summer Eights statistical rankings in 1869 with seven bumps over the then eight days of racing (though finishing 14th on the River in the then single 21 boat Division), its best position for a number of years thereafter. For the remainder of the Nineteenth Century SEHBC put a crew out most years, but with only limited success, generally finishing at or near the bottom of the River (1874 had seen the introduction of a Second Division). SEHBC maintained its place at or near the bottom of the River through the pre-World War I years, with the exceptions of 1913 (finishing fifth in the bottom 3rd Division with three bumps) and 1914 (when it held its position in the 3rd Division). SEH put no boat out in Torpids for the first 40 years of its existence. Its first appearance in Torpids was not until 1901 when its boat started the second bottom of the bottom 3rd Division, was bumped on Day 1 by New College III, then rowed over for the remaining five days of Torpids to finish bottom of the River. Perhaps chastened by this, it put no boat out again until 1907, where starting bottom it bumped Keble II. No further boat was entered until 1910 when the boat made five bumps to finish in the middle of the bottom 3rd Division. Thereafter it performed respectably until World War I, maintaining its place in the 3rd Division, getting four bumps in 1911, but being bumped four times in 1914. Between the wars Summer Eights This pattern held in the 1920s, with SEH being perhaps handicapped by being one of the smaller Colleges at the time, although the boat achieved four bumps over six days of racing in 1925. However, in 1930 SEHBC again finished ahead of the University Summer Eights statistical rankings, for the first time since 1869, with its