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Button wrote:
Two links for you:
https://www.dover.uk.com/forums/dover-forum/dover-sharks
https://doverhistorian.com/2014/01/25/dover-sharks/
With regard to the latter, the Canterbury Journal, Kentish[!] Times and Farmers Gazette of 12 February 1853 reports the case and ends by saying "With such malpractices these it is matter of no surprise that our boatmen should have earned the cognomen sharks".
Most interesting reading Button, thank you. There may be something in the story after all!
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