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Kader, Ahmed Abdel - 23/08/1952
Swimmer(s)
Kamberos, Panagiotis
Date
23/08/1952
Duration of swim
03:15
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Kamberos, Panagiotis - 22/08/1950
Swimmer(s)
Kamberos, Panagiotis
Date
22/08/1950
Duration of swim
08:15
Notes
First Daily Mail Race
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Ratified
Daily Mail
(47)
Kammersgaard, Jenny - 13/09/1952
Swimmer(s)
Kammersgaard, Jenny
Date
13/09/1952
Duration of swim
21:40
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
England-France
(657)
Kammersgaard, Jenny - 21/08/1954
Swimmer(s)
Kammersgaard, Jenny
Date
21/08/1954
Duration of swim
14:50
Notes
2nd Butlins Race
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Ratified
Butlins
(192)
Kammersgaard, Jenny - 22/08/1952
Swimmer(s)
Kammersgaard, Jenny
Date
22/08/1952
Duration of swim
12:08
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
England-France
(657)
Kanaar, Adrian C. - 29/08/1932
Description
Started 7.40 am Cap Gris Nez, gave up 8.30 pm off Dover
Swimmer(s)
Kanaar, Adrian C.
Date
29/08/1932
Duration of swim
12:50
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Kanaar, Adrian C. - 31/08/1933
Description
Started 5.17 am Cap Gris Nez, abandoned 14 hours off dover, 2 miles S.E. of Admiralty Pier 7.18 pm, exhausted
Swimmer(s)
Kanaar, Adrian C.
Date
31/08/1933
Duration of swim
14:01
Pilot boat
Folkestone fishing trawler
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Kearsley, Fred - 08/09/1908
Description
Started 12.10 pm at Sangatte. Swim called off by pilot due to bad weather, covered 6 miles in 2 hours
Swimmer(s)
Kearsley, Fred
Date
08/09/1908
Duration of swim
02:00
Pilot
Billy Kellingley
Pilot boat
Sea Wolfe steam yacht
Trainer
Fred Fairhurst of Wigan (sacked just before swim)
Notes
Kellingley listed as owner of Sea Wolf
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Kellerman, Miss Annette - 07/08/1904
Swimmer(s)
Kellerman, Miss Annette
Date
07/08/1904
Duration of swim
02:00
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
England-France
(657)
Kellerman, Miss Annette - 07/08/1906
Swimmer(s)
Kellerman, Miss Annette
Date
07/08/1906
Duration of swim
02:00
Notes
North Foreland
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
England-France
(657)
Kellerman, Miss Annette - 24/08/1905
Swimmer(s)
Kellerman, Miss Annette
Date
24/08/1905
Duration of swim
06:05
Pilot
Jack Weidman
Pilot boat
Champion tug
Notes
Prince of Wales Pier
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
England-France
(657)
Kellerman, Miss Annette - 26/07/1905
Swimmer(s)
Kellerman, Miss Annette
Date
26/07/1905
Duration of swim
03:00
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
England-France
(657)
Kemmerich, Otto - 23/08/1926
Description
Started Cap Gris Nez 7.50 pm, attacked by shark or porpoise which head-butted him in stomach, 12 miles in 4 hours. Wore webbed gloves. Training diet was beer and cigars
Swimmer(s)
Kemmerich, Otto
Date
23/08/1926
Duration of swim
04:00
Pilot boat
Maurice of Boulogne trawler
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Kenny, Miss Nell - 04/08/1914
Swimmer(s)
Kenny, Miss Nell
Date
04/08/1914
Duration of swim
00:00
Trainer
Billy Kellingley
Notes
Training at Eastbourne for an attempt when war declared
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Khairi, Abla - 01/01/1976
Swimmer(s)
Khairi, Abla Adel
Date
01/01/1976
Duration of swim
00:00
Notes
Date Unknown. Pulled out few hundred yards off Gris Nez Rocks due to weather.
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
England-France
(657)
Khan, Shaukat - 12/09/1959
Swimmer(s)
Khan, Shaukat ul Islam
Date
12/09/1959
Duration of swim
03:32
Notes
Shakespeare Beach
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
England-France
(657)
Khan, Shaukat ul Islam - 27/08/1959
Swimmer(s)
Khan, Shaukat ul Islam
Date
27/08/1959
Duration of swim
00:00
Notes
Did Not Start
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Ratified
Butlins
(192)
Kleissl, Siegfried - 28/08/1974
Swimmer(s)
Kleissl, Siegfried
Date
28/08/1974
Duration of swim
14:00
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Klinghoffer, Joseph - 24/08/1958
Swimmer(s)
Klinghoffer, Joseph
Date
24/08/1958
Duration of swim
01:35
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Ratified
Butlins
(192)
Koch, Fraulein Lu (Louisa) - 01/09/1934
Swimmer(s)
Koch, Fraulein Lulu (Louisa)
Date
01/09/1934
Duration of swim
14:30
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Koch, Fraulein Lu (Louisa) - 03/09/1933
Description
Started 8.37 am Cap Gris Nez
Swimmer(s)
Koch, Fraulein Lulu (Louisa)
Date
03/09/1933
Duration of swim
12:30
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Koch, Fraulein Lu (Louisa) - 25/08/1933
Description
Started 11.30 am, abandoned midnight, 1 mile off english coast, fainted in water. Eva Coleman, pqacemaker
Swimmer(s)
Koch, Fraulein Lulu (Louisa)
Date
25/08/1933
Duration of swim
12:20
Pilot boat
France tug of Dunkirk
Notes
Lulu Koch, Germany, abandoned her try after twelve hours and twenty minutes in the water. Miss Koch was but 1,640 feet from the English coast...Middletown Times Herald 26 August 1933
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Koch, Fraulein Lu (Louisa) –15/09/1932
Swimmer(s)
Koch, Fraulein Lulu (Louisa)
Date
15/09/1932
Duration of swim
06:00
Notes
Girls Try Channel. CAPE CRIS NEZ, France. A German girl, Lee Koch, and a Dutch girl F. Brouwer, started simultaneously to swim the English channel. It was the Brouwer girl's second attempt. They hoped to reach Dover together. Lincoln Nebraska State Journal September 15, 1932. THIRST BALKS GIRLS' CHANNEL ATTEMPTS. Cape Gris Nez, France. Sept. 15. A German girl. Loe Koch, and a Dutch Miss F. Brouwer, both abandoned attempts to swim the English Channel today after they had covered about ten miles. Both said they were unable to continue because of thirst. September 16 1932 Daily News from New York
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
Direction(s)
France-England
(736)
Kovaks, Pierre - 01/01/1964
Swimmer(s)
Kovaks, Pierre
Date
01/01/1964
Duration of swim
Unknown
Notes
Details Unknown
Success/failure
Failed
(725)
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