Downstream

the Woolwich Ferry. At
Barking Creek an outward-
bound Belgian steamer ‘saw
fit to open her bilges just as
she was level with the
swimmer . . . it made [him]
terribly sick and although
bodily he was strong, he
looked as though he had been
poisoned’. Derham was ill for
three weeks and decided he’d
had enough long-distance
swims for that year.
In July 1926 he began his