30 yards backstroke · 1st; time transcribed as 25.15 secs. (numeric interpretation uncertain)

Source details

Royal Naval School, Tal Handak; Tal Handaq Nostalgia transcription — Summer 1957 magazine — Ninth Annual Swimming Sports, 13 July 1956 ↗

Publication date: Not stated

Winning time as transcribed from the school results; original yard distance retained. No national or current school-record status claimed. Pool length and nationality unknown. Initial/surname preserved; no unsupported full-name expansion. Unusual hundredths-style transcription in a 1956 report; original scan not established, so no precise numeric time is inferred.

Primary contemporary school report — later HTML transcription

Selected factual observations only; no full article, image, complete fixtures list or protected table reproduced. No open redistribution licence identified. Parent narrative explicitly identifies 1956 gala and 13 July, despite 1957 publication. Embedded results table fetched as public HTML (HTTP 200); browser text service had a transient 429. Selected clear junior/over 14 entries only; conflicting duplicated boys 60-yard breaststroke entries and corrupted fractional-age entries excluded. Original yard distances retained; pool length unknown. School competition in Malta does not establish Maltese nationality.