Good shots of rough seas battering the coasts of Britain.
The Channel ferry ship 'Canterbury' comes into dock.
Swimmers come in after negotiating the channel
Cuts (out takes, rushes) for CHANNEL SWIM...
Cuts...
Britain suffers in the severe weather conditions with snowdrifts and high seas...
Ships at English Channel during exercise.
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A steamship is stranded in shallow water off Eastbourne.
Tom Blower conquers the English Channel.
New invention - strange animated flippers which aid swimming.
Mother of two, Mrs. Corson, successfully swims The English Channel.
Mr. Vierkoetter, who swam Channel in record time, is welcomed home in Berlin.
Parisian baker, George Michel, swims Channel in record time.
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...
Shots of Channel swimmer Philip Mickman practising in...
Cuts from newsreel story 46/53 - Channel Swimmer Jorge Berruta in...
Inauguration of cross channel power scheme at East Grinstead,...
Aerial shots Royal Liner "Gothic" in Channel.
Sea trials of the first two...
Greenhouses in Jersey where flowers and tomatoes are grown.
Nice footage of swimmers preparing to swim the Channel and larking...
Channel Bridge model presented in Paris.
An item about the first hovercraft to be bought by a commercial firm.
Record glider Joan Meakin talks about her achievement after the flight.
A tiny church in Guernsey, covered in shells and pieces of china - inside...
Swimmer George Booker swims from Beachy Head to Hastings preparing for a...
New Governor of Jersey Sir Arthur Grasett arrives to take up his duties.
Miss Marwell Abrahamson in training...
Mr. Derham of Southend swims...
The swimmer E.H.Temme receives an enthusiastic welcome from family and...
A strange craft, half boat, half seaplane on show in the water at Dover.
Plenty of grease and good luck for Mrs. Corson, setting off on a channel...
Rene Savard crosses the channel in a boat bicycle.
The Honourable Mrs Mary Bruce races across the...
Outboard motor boat racing across the English Channel,...
Passenger killed in aeroplane crash off the coast of Dungeness, Scotland.