Downstream

set her sights on the Channel.
The river was seen as an ideal
place – perhaps the only place
– to train for a swim between
England and France that
would cover at least twenty
miles, and many earlier and
future Channel champions
started their careers in the
Thames. Hawke failed on her
first attempts, in 1922 and
1927, and then in 1928 she
made it from France to Dover
in nineteen hours and sixteen