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Channel Swimming Dover

Celebrating the history and record of channel swims

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  • Channel swimmer Jabez Wolffe prepares to start crossing from Cape Gris Nez
    Channel swimmer Jabez Wolffe prepares to start crossing from Cape Gris Nez
  • Florence Chadwick
    Florence Chadwick
  • Millie Corson
    Millie Corson
  • Shirley May France
    Shirley May France

Welcome to the Dover Museum Channel Swimming Archive

This website contains our unique and comprehensive Channel Swimming photographic archive and object collection. It also includes all our research on swimmers, swims and all things cross-Channel Swimming. Find out more about us or get in touch.

This website has been made possible by the generous gift of Joe & Marlene Smith

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  • 1950 Daily Mail Cross-Channel Race

    1950 Daily Mail Cross-Channel Race

    The 1950 Daily Mail International Cross-Channel Race
  • 1954 Edward James May

    1954 Edward James May

    On 8 September 1954, lone Englishman Ted May set off from Cap Gris Nez to swim to England, but without ...
  • The Development of Channel Swimming as a Competitive Sport

    The Development of Channel Swimming as a Competitive Sport

    The Channel Swimming Club 1906 – 1931 Adolph Alexander was a Jewish tailor and clothier based at 114 & 115 Cheapside ...
  • The Pioneering Channel Swimmers: From Johnson to Webb

    The Pioneering Channel Swimmers: From Johnson to Webb

    The Pioneering Channel Swimmers: From Johnson to Webb The Strait of Dover is the busiest stretch of water in the world. ...

  • Mark Frost on Rees, Jack

    17/05/2020
    If you have any info on this second attempt we would love to see it as our archives and local...

  • Mark Frost on Hills, Miss Zetta (Lillian Annie)

    17/05/2020
    There is no record of her doing so in our archives or newspaper archives

  • Richard Conlon on Henry Sullivan being greased on French beach

    12/05/2020
    I believe the tall man to the right of Henry F Sullivan greasing him, was my grand uncle John J...
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