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woman to successfully complete the crossing. ‘Thank God, I am conscious,’ she declared, before collapsing on th ...
England’. However, some papers raised questions. The Dover Express noted that ‘there was no one ashore to witne ...
board any Press representatives and officials from the recognised swimming body.’ But the News of the World gave ...
her mind on doing a thing it just has to be done’. But, perhaps conscious of repeated comments as to whe ...
But unfortunately for Gleitze, four days later another swimmer, Dr Dorothy Cochrane Logan, a Harley Street p ...
£1,000 by the News of the World to claim a record swim. She said she was just showing why Channel records need ...
matter-of-fact determination. There had been previous bogus Channel claims. A Mrs Hamilton had ‘spent the night’ ...
those on the accompanying boat), and she agreed there needed to be a governing body for Channel swimming. ...
Mercedes Gleitze (centre) was the first British woman to swim across the Channel, but she found the Thames more ‘treacherous’. N ...
of the advance publicity, Rolex, which the year before had patented the first waterproof wristwatch, the Oyster, aske ...
entered the water once again at Cap Gris Nez. But after over ten hours, in water sometimes as cold as 50 ...
and under her arms, and she was forcibly pulled on board. The watch, which she actually wore round her neck, ...
London where she was besieged by autograph hunters and ‘an excited woman admirer broke through the throng at Charing ...
‘a bona-fide one’, in the presence of the Commissioner for Oaths and a representative of the Daily Mirror. Th ...
English Channel and to verify crossing times. Mercedes Gleitze’s record as the first British woman to swim the En ...
Strait, watched by ‘hundreds of women’, becoming the first person ever to swim the eight-mile course, in twelve ...
she was photographed barefoot working in a Manchester cotton mill where she’d been employed for ten days und ...
up the Mercedes Gleitze Home for Destitute Men and Women in Leicester in 1933, which survived until the Se ...
‘The most amazing girl in England’: Mercedes Gleitze. In 1929 she swam thirty- nine miles in the Thames in twelve ...
woman (no one had yet beaten Holbein’s fifty-mile continuous swim of 1908) and completed many endurance swims at ...
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