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CHANNEL SWIM
NOTTS MAN’S SUCCESS. [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] LONDON, August 4. A Nottingham man, Tom Blower, aged 23, whom the pilot describes as a “human torpedo and the fastest Channel swimmer I have piloted,” opened the Channel swimming season. He started from Gris Nez at 4 a.m. and landed at Dover at 6.26 p.m. The conditions were favourable. Blower's official time was 13 hours 29 minutes.
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Grey River Argus, 6 August 1937, Page 3
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67CHANNEL SWIM Grey River Argus, 6 August 1937, Page 3
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