Downstream

and seen action, before taking
up professional swimming. In
1862 he’d won the English
500 yards swimming
championship. This time he
swam ‘over twenty miles
from London Bridge to
Greenhithe, the longest
distance to that time on the
Thames’, according to the
Australian Dictionary of
Biography. But Cavill failed
to reach Gravesend because
‘the ebb tide had run out’ and