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Swimming - Diving

Sep. 09, 1954 - Air-Sea search for all-alone channels swim man : A great air-sea search was going on in the roughening Channel Early today for a man reported in the sea off the Goodwin's - nearly 22 hours after Mr. Edward May started his lone Channel swim from Cap Gris-Nez. Some coast watchers feared that of nine children, was exhausted and that he was clinging to his rubber-Tyre raft, on which are food, drink and compass. In her council house at dart ford, Kent, Mrs. Florence May, 43, waited for news with seven of her children. photo shows Mrs. Florence may, wife of the lone channel swimmer, Edward may, seen at her home with seven of her nine children listening for news on the radio

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13170908
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46156437
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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Air-sea Channels Clinging Compass Dart Exhausted Feared Goodwins Gris-nez Lone Nearly Raft Reported Swimmer Waited Watchers


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