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trained full-time. British
women didn’t have any
funding. My mother had to
earn a living; she was a
working girl, she had rent to
pay and limited holidays. She
had little chance to train in
the sea, and suddenly she had
an idea one day, maybe she
could use the Thames to train
in at weekends. She lived in
Pimlico and worked as a
shorthand typist for a
shipping company in