The Channel ferry ship 'Canterbury' comes into dock.
Swimmers come in after negotiating the channel
Cuts (out takes, rushes) for CHANNEL SWIM...
Nice footage of swimmers preparing to swim the Channel and larking...
New invention - strange animated flippers which aid swimming.
Mr. Vierkoetter, who swam Channel in record time, is welcomed home in Berlin.
Parisian baker, George Michel, swims Channel in record time.
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French boys land on the beach as they make it across the channel in a canoe.
Mercedes Gleitze attempts a channel swim.
Ivy Hawke, 23 year-old London girl swims the Channel in 19 hours 16...
18 year old...
Young Channel swimmer "Laddie" Sharp returns home to Lewisham and...
Joan Brunton, aged 11, gets in training for swimming the English...
Mrs Arthur Hamilton nearly manages to swim the Channel but gives up 3...
A happy Henry Sullivan arrives in Dover after having swum the...
Beatrice Harrison fails to swim the Channel.
Clarabelle Barratt's second Channel swim attempt fails due to...
Jorge Berruetta of Chile trains for his cross Channel swimming...
A typist from London is forced to give up her cross-Channel swim.
Cuts (out takes, rushes) for THE...
Cuts from newsreel story 46/53 - Channel Swimmer Jorge Berruta in...
Clarabelle Barratt's attempt to...
Record glider Joan Meakin talks about her achievement after the flight.
Swimmer George Booker swims from Beachy Head to Hastings preparing for a...
Miss Marwell Abrahamson in training...
Cuts...
Mr. Derham of Southend swims...
The swimmer E.H.Temme receives an enthusiastic welcome from family and...
Plenty of grease and good luck for Mrs. Corson, setting off on a channel...
The Honourable Mrs Mary Bruce races across the...
Outboard motor boat racing across the English Channel,...
We see distance swimmer Mrs Arthur Hamilton in the sea and on the shore...
Myrtle Huddlestone stays in water for 21 hours in her...
Grandmother Mrs E. Craven practices for her Channel swim in...
Memorial to Captain Webb is unveiled on occasion of 50th anniversary...
Miss Mille Grade practising at Dover for her cross Channel swim.
The daughter of a Baron makes an attempt to swim the Channel.
Austrian swimmer Emma Faber shows us her...
Jersey goes gay at its annual carnival.
A look at the new ferry called 'Dragon' which will carry out cross-Channel runs. London.
Honeymoon couples on Channel Island of Jersey, to avoid high taxes.
Aimee Pfanner crosses the English Channel on "hydro cycle".
American swimmer Shirley May France fails to make it across the English Channel.
Item showing people swimming the English Channel.
Aleks Wozniak wants to cross the English Channel on skis.
Comedian Ken Dodd demonstrates some novel ways to train Channel...
Footage of the annual Battle of the Flowers in St. Helier, Jersey.
Fetching swimsuits are modelled by Mrs...