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his journey, his white
handlebar moustache as
bright as his swimming cap.
He died in 1944.
Fred Bownes, meanwhile,
the Australian press
explained, had swum just
over twenty miles from
Blackwall to Gravesend (no
date is given), while Webb
had managed forty miles in
the Thames in 1878. It was
the records of these two men,
as well as of Holbein, that

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