Only the Woman Swimmer

Quensell’s sister-in-low, Pauline Hoeft, a champion swimmer, often visited the island and occasionally swam in delivering and picking up the mail. She is only the woman known to have swum the mail.

Persons from Left to right,
1) Pauline Hoeft : Quensell's sister-in-low
2) Walter George Quensell : Tin Can Mail Man
3) Charles August Quensell: Quensell's son
4) Emma Louise Hoeft : Quensell's second wife

Only one known photograph of Quensell's family  

Swimmers carrying inward letters

Photopostcard of swimmers with inward mails. Finally, the swimmers arrived safely to the island. Sent from Niuafoou in 1930, by T.A. Jaggers, scientist for Eclipse Expedition, to USA  

Swimmers carrying inward letters

Photopostcard of swimmers with inward letters. The swimmers swims farther and farther from the ship.  

Swimmers carrying inward letters

Inward letters are prepared in the waterproof "tin can". During the inward swimming, swimmers have only the long Fau pole with their hands. They don’t have any short sticks like outward swimming.

Photopostcard of Tin Can Mail swimmers taken from the ship. They were carrying Tin Can incuding the inward letters to the island.  

Swimmers carrying outward letters

Photopostcard of Tin Can Mail swimmers. They were carrying outward letters to the ship off Niuafoou.
  

Original photo of Outward mail

The original of the famous photograph. Tin Can Mail swimmers preparing the outward mail transportation. Outward letters are on the top of the short sticks.