‘came back on the flood to
Blackwall’. Although he
didn’t manage to reach the
pier ‘owing to the tide failing
him’, he left the water ‘quite
fit and strong’ after
swimming for just over
twelve hours. He used a slow
but powerful stroke,
described as ‘half-side, half-
back’.
Born around 1862 in the
Thames-side town of
Twickenham, Holbein was a
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