delayed by rough weather.
Here she displayed her right
arm ‘pitted with bright red
spots’, presumably from
jellyfish, between Canvey
Island and Whitstable.
Then, less than three
months later, on 7 October
1927, and on her eighth
attempt, Gleitze finally
crossed the Channel from
France to England in fifteen
hours fifteen minutes, making
history as the first British
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