trinity hall's oldest and largest society, the boat club was founded in 1827, and has had a long and distinguished history; notably from 1890 until 1898, when the college stayed head of the mays for 33 consecutive days of rowing, which remains to this day the longest continuous defence by a single club of the bumps headship. the college won all but one of the events in the 1887 henley royal regatta, making it the most successful cambridge college in henley's history. the current boathouse, built in 1905 in memory of henry latham, is on the river cam, a short walk from the college.