Downstream

set off from Westminster just
before 6 a.m., accompanied
by a motor launch whose
skipper was a Mr Garman.
But while she started with the
tide the river became rough,
she was swept off course and
drawn under a group of
barges, where she
disappeared. ‘The suction
was terrible,’ she later told
reporters, ‘the Channel was
not nearly so treacherous as
this.’ She was trapped at a