Channel Swimmers
dot.gif (850 bytes) Introduction
dot.gif (850 bytes) The Pioneers
dot.gif (850 bytes) Early Attempts
dot.gif (850 bytes) Between the Wars
dot.gif (850 bytes) 1950s Heyday
dot.gif (850 bytes) The Museum's Collection
dot.gif (850 bytes) Records and Firsts
dot.gif (850 bytes) Sam Rockett
   
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Swimming the Channel

Dover Museum's Collection

Within the last couple of years, the museum has been fortunate to receive a number of private and family collections related to channel swimming. , Dover Museum has acquired many photographs and articles about the subject - covering from the early years of the 20th century through the heyday in the 1950s, and some more modern material. Now the museum holds one of the world's best collections of material relating to channel swimming.

The Museum has been donated a superb collection of material relating to Sam Rockett. This private collection has been donated by his family and will  be known as The Sam Rockett Collection. Details of the material in this collection will be added to the catalogue as soon as possible.

A text catalogue of this picture collection is available online : as an html file (103kb) or as a text file (20kb)

About Sam Rockett

 
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