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Illustrated Police News
admiringly. ‘Sailor and dock
and waterside labourers of all
kinds may be mentioned as a
class to whom a knowledge
of swimming would appear to
be essential; and yet how few
workers of this description
take the trouble to learn the
art?’ The paper noted that
‘not ten per cent of the
merchant seamen’ knew how
to swim, while in the navy
‘the men are compelled to