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Holmes, Frank - 08/09/1898
Description
START: 9:53 am. Sept 8th 1898. FINISH: 7:00pm. TIME: 9h 07m. E-F. Temp 66°f. Breast stroke, 30 spm. Admiralty Pier, from back of boat to 6 – 7miles from France, abandoned due to fog and wind
Swimmer(s)

Holmes, Frank (Francis)
Date
08/09/1898
Duration of swim
09:07
Pilot
W. Bingham with W. Burvill, W. Cole, Dover Boatmen.
Pilot boat
Princess, lugger
Notes
6-7 miles short. No Grease or goggles. A light Pugaree cap to protect his neck. Swam naked. Food; Hot Sterilized milk, Beef steak minced very fine, a little bread, mince meat, and a pear. He was a total abstainer. Used Pigeons for news dispatch. On board; Howard Holmes (brother) and a Dover Correspondent. Frank spent previous summer in Dover; he went home without making an attempt.
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Holmes, Frank - 18/08/1899
Description
Started Dover 6 am Friday morning. Strong north-westerly wind sprang up. Had posponed 3 am attempt on Thursday 17th whilst on shore due to Pilot's assessment of conditions
Swimmer(s)

Holmes, Frank (Francis)
Date
18/08/1899
Duration of swim
?
Pilot
W. Bingham
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Number of crossings

One Way Swim (644)
Holmes, Frank - 24/07/1900
Description
START: 4:15am. July 24th 1900. FINISH: 9:05am. TIME: 4h 50m.E-F. 60°f . Admiralty Pier, swam to 14 miles of France. Breast stroke
Swimmer(s)

Holmes, Frank (Francis)
Date
24/07/1900
Duration of swim
04:50
Pilot
W. Bingham with boatmen Cole, Saunders & Burvill.
Pilot boat
Princess, lugger
Notes
14 miles from France. He dove off the Lugger Princess at the end of Admiralty Pier. He wore no clothing of any kind. Food; Rice and Beef Tea. On board; Mr C. P. Barnett and Mr Evans (friends)
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Holmes, Frank - 28/08/1902
Description
START: 5:29am. Aug 28th 1902. FINISH: 10:59am.. TIME: 4h 30m. E-F. Temp 61°f. From end of Prince of Wales Pier, swam 6 miles. Breast stroke.
Swimmer(s)

Holmes, Frank (Francis)
Date
28/08/1902
Duration of swim
04:30
Pilot
W. Bingham with Boatmen Burwill and Hook
Pilot boat
Unknown Lugger
Notes
Food; Boiled milk with whipped eggs, Cold rice. Swam naked. Sickness and cramp, sun stroke. On board; his Brother Howard Holmes and Professor Bibbero.
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Holmes, Frank - 11/09/1902
Description
START: 6:30am. Sept 11th 1902. FINISH: 8:45am. TIME: 2h 15m E-F. Temp 62°f to 64°f. From boat at end of Admiralty Pier, swam 4 miles. Breast stroke. Strong winds.
Swimmer(s)

Holmes, Frank (Francis)
Date
11/09/1902
Duration of swim
02:15
Pilot
W. Bingham with Boatmen Saunders, Hook, Burwill and A. H. Beard.
Pilot boat
Unknown Lugger
Notes
Food; Milk, Bovril, pears, bananas. Wore dark goggles. Swam naked. His brother Howard Holmes and two Journalists on board.
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Holbein, Montague 'Monty' - 02/09/1903
Description
START 6 43pm Sept 1. FINISH Sept 2 12 10pm. Langdon Bay - 8 miles from France (4 miles at 8 00pm). Temp 63’f . Side stroke, 22 Strokes per min and back stroke. Grease; Porpoise Oil and Beeswax. Food; Chicken sandwiches, Virol, Raw eggs, Bovril, brown sugar sandwiches, Chicken Sandwiches. Supplied by his wife and her sister Miss Farley. Hot milk given in a feeding bottle or small teapot. Skull cap of canvas, a canvas mask, glass goggles fixed on with Colloidal.
Swimmer(s)

Holbein, Montague 'Monty'
Date
02/09/1903
Duration of swim
17:27
Pilot
Capt. Sharp, Capt Lambert, Pilot Fred May
Pilot boat
Granville tug with Lady Vita plus two feeding rowboats Shamrock, and Earl of Zetland
Trainer
Charles Newman
Notes
On board; Mr Charles Newman (trainer and advisor on the swim), Dr Charles Murphy (Dover swimming club), Mr Walpole Hillier, Mr Fred May, Mr H D Faith (Otter swimming club), Mr Moeb (president of the Paris swimming club), Mr Frank Shortland, Mr Harry Hetherington, Mr George Nix, Mr George Gray (London Swimming Club), W. Broad (Dover S.C.) and others well known in the sporting world.
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Haggerty, Jack - 20/08/1904
Description
START 6 17pm. FINISH. 7 22pm. End of Admiralty Pier. Sponsored by Weekly Dispatch. Cramp. Turned blue and had a lucky escape from drowning. Temp 62-60. Food; Hot milk. Grease; Beeswax, Porpoise oil, Resin. Wore no mask. Stroke; Side stroke. Jack refused to leave the water, so the crew leaned out of the boat with a long pole with a hook on the end put it around his neck and pulled him to the boat.
Swimmer(s)

Haggerty, John (Jack)
Date
20/08/1904
Duration of swim
01:05
Pilot
W. Cole
Pilot boat
Britannia
Trainer
Weekly Dispatch - Mr Cryer
Notes
On board; trainer Mr Cryer, Dr Ross and many friends
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Holbein, Montague 'Monty' - 21/08/1904
Description
START 4 32pm. Aug 20. FINISH. 2 35am Aug 21. Danger rock, Lydden Spout - 10.03 miles out. Side stroke 25 to 30 per min. Food; Cocoa. Bovril. Peppermint. Beef sandwich. Veal sandwich. Sugar sandwich. Chocolate. Temp 62’f. to 60’f. Grease; Beeswax, Porpoise oil, and Resin. Mask with celluloid eye pieces. Colloid linen skull cap. Seized by sickness and diarrhoea after 10 hours.
Swimmer(s)

Holbein, Montague 'Monty'
Date
21/08/1904
Duration of swim
10:03
Pilot
Pilot B. Foster. With Capt F. C. Groves Trinity Pilot, Capt Anning' Fred May.
Pilot boat
Scotia tug
Trainer
Charles Newman
Notes
Sponsored by Daily Mirror. On board; his wife and her sister Miss Fairley who organized the Feeding, Mr C Newman his trainer, Mr Fred May, Mr Shorland, Mr P Nix, J Warburton, Professor Bates, Mr Moebs (President of the Paris swimming club), Mr Black, Mr Walpole Hiller, Dr Rose, Dr Murphy, also a number of press men and seven or eight swimmers who were to take a spell with Holbein; G Grey, W Booth (London Cygnus S.C.), S Faith and S. L. Peters (London Otter S.C.), W Broad (ex captain Dover S.C.), F Record and E Duffy (Medway S.C.), W Holmes (Champion London Polytecnic S.C.), C Grinstead (Champion of Worthing and Zephyr S.C.), F H Naylor (Hornsey S.C), as well as several French sportsmen.
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Heaton, Edward 'Ted' - 26/07/1905
Description
START 7 40am. FINISH. 1 37pm Admiralty Pier - swam 6 miles. Side stroke, 28 spm. Dense fog. Very sick. Temp 62 - 63'f
Swimmer(s)

Heaton, Edmund Caunce Nowell 'Ted'
Date
26/07/1905
Duration of swim
05:57
Pilot
Capt Foster, Capt Simmons.
Pilot boat
Champion tug and two rowboats
Trainer
J. Harrison
Notes
Time given as 6h 30m in Across the Straits. He wore a mask and goggles and the racing colours of Colonel W. H. Walker M.P, vice president of the swimming committee. At 11am Burgess swam with him for 1hr. At about 1 45pm a French mail package Steamer hove in sight, the paddle wheel narrowly missed Heaton’s head by two feet. The tremendous wash of the Steamer caused Heaton to ship a great deal of sea water. 10 mins later he said to Mr W. H. Carter M.A., who was steersman on the feeding boat, “I feel very ill”. With this Mr Carter clutched his wrist so ending the swim. The crew used pigeon post to report progress. His father, Dr Long, Frank Sugg (Lancashire cricketer), Mr J Harrison (trainer), Mr Wauchope Watson, T. William Burgess, on board.
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Holbein, Montague 'Monty' - 24/08/1905
Description
START 3 54am. FINISH 11 15am. Lydden Spout - swam 16 miles. Grease; Beeswax, Porpoise oil. Food; Bovril, Chocolate, Beef lozenges. Backstroke 20 s p m. Temp. 64 air 62. Wore a shield fitted with goggles, which nearly covered his head. He was carried on to the Varne and had to retire. He had 6 French and English fishermen who new the force of the currents to advise him.
Swimmer(s)

Holbein, Montague 'Monty'
Date
24/08/1905
Duration of swim
07:21
Pilot
Fred May with Captain abbott
Pilot boat
Florida tug
Notes
On board; Mrs Holbein, her sister Miss Fairley, Mr Walpole Hiller (Sheffield swimming club), Mr Percy Nix and Mr Fred May (cyclist), W G Randall (Otter swimming club), Mr H D Faith, Mr Duffy (Medway swimming club) and others.
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Heaton, Edward 'Ted' - 05/08/1907
Description
START 8 55am. FINISH. 6 57pm. Lydden Spout - 4½ miles off C.G.Nez. 58’f to 59’f. Food; Bovril, Cocoa, Milk, Cream, Black Grapes, Sandwich. Grease; Lard. Left arm over, 26 per.min., some Breast stroke. Mrs Heaton swam with him at times. Thick Fog. Swim cap made of silk in Colonel Walkers colours, Blue and White Check.
Swimmer(s)

Heaton, Edmund Caunce Nowell 'Ted'
Date
05/08/1907
Duration of swim
10:02
Pilot
Captain Foster and Sharp
Pilot boat
Lady Curzon tug
Notes
On Board; A. H. Whorwell and J. B. Whorwell. (Dover swimming club), Mr Gatehouse, Mrs Foster, Mrs Heaton
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Heaton, Edward 'Ted' - 31/08/1907
Description
START 5 30am. FINISH. 3 45pm. Lydden Spout - swam 8 miles. Temp 62’f. Side Stroke, some Breast stroke, 24 per min.
Swimmer(s)

Heaton, Edmund Caunce Nowell 'Ted'
Date
31/08/1907
Duration of swim
10:05
Pilot
Captain Sharp
Pilot boat
Lady Curzon tug
Trainer
Dr. Wauchope Watson
Notes
On board; Mr E Whitaker Heaton (his father), Mrs Heaton, Mr A. Ricketts, Dr Wauchope Watson in charge of the swim, Mr A Whorwell (Dover swimming club) and others. He was able to make this attempt through the kindness of Colonel Howard Walker M. P.
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Heaton, Edward 'Ted' - 03/09/1907
Description
START. 3 20pm. FINISH. 6 15pm. South Foreland - swam 5 miles. Food; Hot Chocolate, Bovril, and Chicken. Temp 62’
Swimmer(s)

Heaton, Edmund Caunce Nowell 'Ted'
Date
03/09/1907
Duration of swim
02:45
Pilot
Captain Sharp
Pilot boat
Lady Curzon tug
Notes
On Board Mr Heaton, (Father) Wauchope Watson (Food Specialist). Heaton and Burgess swam together as an experiment, at the start of the Ebb Tide.
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Heaton, Edward 'Ted' - 27/08/1909
Swimmer(s)

Heaton, Edmund Caunce Nowell 'Ted'
Date
27/08/1909
Duration of swim
15:20
Pilot
Jack Weidman
Pilot boat
Champion tug
Notes
Shakespeare Cliff
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Heaton, Edward 'Ted' - 01/09/1910
Swimmer(s)

Heaton, Edmund Caunce Nowell 'Ted'
Date
01/09/1910
Duration of swim
15:43
Pilot boat
Champion tug
Notes
Dover Colliery
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Heaton, Edward 'Ted' - 08/08/1911
Swimmer(s)

Heaton, Edmund Caunce Nowell 'Ted'
Date
08/08/1911
Duration of swim
10.3
Notes
Shakespeare Cliff
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Holbein, Montague 'Monty' - 22/08/1913
Description
START 12 37am. FINISH. 2 45am. West of St. Margaret’s - South Goodwin’s. Very Rough. Northerly wind. Temp 61’f. Leaking Goggles, causing severe pain.
Swimmer(s)

Holbein, Montague 'Monty'
Date
22/08/1913
Duration of swim
02:08
Pilot boat
Angus motor boat
Notes
Not in Across the Straights
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Holbein, Montague 'Monty' - 11/09/1913
Description
START 12 55am. FINISH 5 00am. South Foreland. Fresh South Westerly. Strong winds
Swimmer(s)

Holbein, Montague 'Monty'
Date
11/09/1913
Duration of swim
04:05
Pilot boat
Triton boat
Notes
Not in Across the Straights
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Hamilton, Mrs. Arthur - 01/09/1920
Swimmer(s)

Hamilton, Mrs. Arthur
Date
01/09/1920
Duration of swim
11:45
Pilot
Captain Porter of Ramsgate
Notes
Shakespeare Beach. Her pilot later stated she had only managed 1 hour
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Hills, Miss Zetta (Lillian Annie) - 21/08/1923
Description
Swam naked except for a loin cloth but cold eventually made her put on regulation costume. Started Dover 7 a.m.. Swam 9 miles before conditions became too much
Swimmer(s)

Hills, Miss Zetta (Lillian Annie)
Date
21/08/1923
Duration of swim
04:00
Pilot
Thomas 'Hoggamy' Hall
Pilot boat
F.E.78 fishing boat 'Cereal'
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Hills, Miss Zetta (Lillian Annie) – 10/07/1924
Description
Started Folkestone 6 a.m. in a special rubber suit she had devised. After 7 miles the suit began to take in water and pull her down, forcing her to abandon
Swimmer(s)

Hills, Miss Zetta (Lillian Annie)
Date
10/07/1924
Duration of swim
5:00
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Helmi, Ishak - 27/08/1929
Description
Started South Foreland, got cramp after 11 miles
Swimmer(s)

Helmi, Ishak
Date
27/08/1929
Duration of swim
07:17
Pilot boat
Champion tug
Trainer
Thomas Burgess
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Hawke, Miss Ivy - 31/08/1929
Description
START 9 17pm. FINISH 1 17am. South Foreland - three mile from France. Food; Milk Chocolate, Rice Pudding. Grease; Lanolin. Stroke; Trudgeon. Fatigued and sore due to rough conditions.
Swimmer(s)

Hawke, Miss Ivy
Date
31/08/1929
Duration of swim
16:00
Pilot
Harry Pearson of Deal
Pilot boat
Ocean Queen
Trainer
Harry Pearson
Notes
This was an attempt for the Dover Gold Cup. She swam France to England last year time 19 hrs 16mins. Observer for Dover Corporation, Mr T Wood
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)
Huddlestone, Mrs. Myrtle - 13/09/1929
Swimmer(s)

Huddlestone, Mrs. Myrtle
Date
13/09/1929
Duration of swim
21:13
Pilot
Captain Spicer
Pilot boat
La Morinie tug
Trainer
Billy Kellingley
Notes
South Foreland Lighthouse
Success/failure

Failed (725)
Direction(s)

England-France (657)

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