greatest possible challenges
for sporting swimmers, and
was sometimes more
ferocious than the Channel.
On 18 July 1927 Mercedes
Gleitze set off from
Westminster to train for a
Channel crossing, having
already made several failed
attempts. Her plan was to
swim a staggering 120 miles
from Westminster Bridge,
down the Thames and around
Beachy Head, to Folkestone,
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