Downstream

women’s mental and physical
abilities, the press were
hopeful when it came to
Smith’s plan to swim the
Channel, pointing out that she
had swum for over four hours
with Jabez Wolffe in his
Channel attempt in 1907. In
all Wolffe would try, and fail,
to cross the Channel twenty-
two times, although he did
complete several marathon
swims. He also coached a
number of successful Channel