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Gas balloon traveled 641 km in 22 hours and 15 minutes [4] [5] 25 July 1909 First person to cross the channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft Louis Blériot (France) Blériot XI: Calais, France Dover, England Encouraged by £1000 prize offered by the Daily Mail for first successful flight across the Channel. Flight time 37 minutes.
Completed crossing in 1 hour 40 minutes 6 seconds – previous record was 6 hours. [citation needed] 26 July 2006 New record time for crossing in hydrofoil car (the Rinspeed Splash, two-seater open-top sports car) Frank M. Rinderknecht (Switzerland) Completed crossing in 3 hours 14 minutes [77] 25 September 2006
Some 45,774 arrivals were reported across the whole of 2022: the highest for a calendar year since data on Channel crossings began in 2018. The total for 2023, 29,437, was more than a third (36% ...
The number of Channel crossings is 32% lower than the total recorded at the same point of time last year, but 49% higher than the total at this stage in 2022. [ 57 ] For the first quarter of 2024, the most common nationality of people arriving from small boats was from Vietnam, with the 1,266 Vietnamese arrivals making up 20% of arrivals so far.
Official data recording small boat crossings shows an increase when comparing the last 80 days of Rishi Sunak’s government and the first 80 days of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership.
This is 25% higher than the 29,437 people who arrived in 2023, but 20% lower than the 45,774 arrivals in 2022, which was the highest for a calendar year since data on Channel crossings began in 2018.
The English Channel connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Southern part of the North Sea and is one of the busiest shipping areas in the world with ships going in numerous direction: some are passing through in transit from the Southwest to Northeast (or vice versa) and others serving the many ports around the English Channel, including ferries crossing the Channel.
Six 13 to 15-year-olds from Watford Swimming Club are to take on the 21-mile crossing. Teenagers eyeing glory as they take on English Channel crossing relay Skip to main content