Downstream

the ‘right arm over stroke’,
swam until half past three,
covering twenty-one and
three-quarter miles in six
hours and thirty-eight
minutes. According to the
Surrey Comet there were loud
cheers from soldiers on
Tower Wharf as she began
her swim and cries of ‘good
luck’. At Westminster she
received an ovation from
wounded convalescing
soldiers at St Thomas’