With only 40 undergraduates in the entire year group of 1929-30 and most of them without previous rowing experience, they still improved their position on the river, both in Torpids and in Eights.

Chavasse and the College Bursar, Toby Tinne, an Old Etonian and one-time rowing Blue, were the team's coaches.

[4][5]The club acquired its very first boat in the second year of its existence and named it St Peter of Galilee, in spirit of the evangelical mainspring of the Hall's foundation.

1936 saw the second boat, on the first day, scoring an exceedingly rare double over-bump: five places gained in one afternoon.

[9][10] The Bursar C. E. Tinne was still coaching, "bicycling, megaphone in hand, and bawling instructions anywhere between Sandford and the end of Port Meadow",[11] and the Boat Club moved with their fleet into the old OUBC boathouse.

[17] Bump Suppers, still not a regular tradition at college, were only held celebrating a blade winning crew as it happened in 1972 for the Schools (Second) Eight.

Long, and I thought it would be a wonderful idea to learn to row, and we managed to find enough other girls at SPC who were also interested to put together a single eight for Torpids.

That first crew was:  Clare Gilham (stroke), Lauren Chapin, Belinda Jemal, Judith Wilson, Emily Geilker, Eileen Scallen, P.J.

Those crews were:  1st Ladies Eight: Julia Ferguson (cox), Emily Geilker (stroke), Judith Wilson, Clare Gilham, Eileen Scallen, P.J.

Long, Gillian Chedzoy, Laura Byatt, and Lauren Chapin (bow); 2nd Ladies Eight: Geordie Royle(cox), Caryn Minnit (stroke), S. Tinker, Belinda Jemal, K. Moore, K. Clarke, J. Frank, J.

Brown, and A. Gelling (bow).In 1999, the Victorian listed University Boathouse burned down and with it SPCBC's entire fleet, memorabilia like trophy blades as well as archive material of the club.

The same year SPCBC also created its first YouTube "hype video" to the popular Queen song "Don't stop me now" (https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Rfth75KmwY&feature=share).

The building is owned by University College and won a Royal Institute of British Architects prize.

[citation needed] St Peter's College uses a proportion of student fees to fund social and sporting activity, but also relies on alumni donations and membership "subs" for its upkeep.

[citation needed] Notable St Peter's oarsmen include Mark Stanhope, former Bishop of Oxford John Pritchard, former World Champion Mike Blomquist and Karl Hudspith (4 time 'Blue' and 2012 OUBC President).