WOMAN SWIMS STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR
(N.Z. Press Association—Copytigld) GIBRALTAR. September* A 33-year-old Californian switg’ Miss Florence Chadwick, swam Strait of Gibraltar from Europ*-. Africa in the unofficial time oi. . 6min today. She broke the . for the crossing by more than an ■ and a half. As she walked out of the sw* - ; the African coast, she said: * u the happiest girl in the worlo- * [ I would do it, and I did.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27151, 22 September 1953, Page 8
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