18 Year Old Girl Channel Conquerer ! [sic] Aka 18 Year Old Girl Channel Conqueror! (1928)

Full titles read: “18 year-old Girl Channel Conquerer! [sic] - Miss “Laddie“ Sharp swims Channel in remarkable time of 14 hrs. 58 mins. ...just failing to beat Miss Ederle’s record.“ Dover, Kent. Various shots of Laddie Sharp swimming the Channel. She is helped out of the water and wrapped in a towel - she looks exhausted and freezing cold, but manages to plant a kiss on the cheek of a man in swimming togs - her trainer or father? Wearing a hat and coat, Laddie is helped up some steps to the quayside, where a cheering crowd greets her. M/S of Laddie (looking a bit warmer!) with a group of people. FILM ID:740.2 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-193