Downstream

‘content themselves with
cheering while the black
patch on the water rapidly
drifted in the gathering
twilight towards Blackwall’.
In the ‘half obscured light
of the moon’ Parker reached
Blackwall Pier and was taken
on board the steamer in a
‘most vivacious mood’. Her
time was one hour thirty-
seven minutes. She had
successfully eclipsed
Beckwith’s swim from