[1] Lilian Harrison was born in Quilmes, is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1904, within a family of British immigrants.

Completing this swim, she established a world female record of permanence in the water of 21 hours and 20 minutes.

But these attempts, by swimmers Enrique Tirabocchi, Luis Garramendy, Elio Pérez, Romero Maciel and Vito Dumas, had failed.

As night fell, her team realized that they had not brought reflectors, an error that could have boomed the crossing but that was partially compensated by the moon light, From 1 o'clock until 4 a.m. she swam alone.

She touched shore on the argentine side of the River Plate at 9:47 in the morning, on the Playa Colorada, close to the Punta Lara.

For her crossing of the River Plate, she was decorated by the Minister of navy, in the presence of the president of Argentina Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear and the first lady; and honored by the Governor of the province of Buenos Aires, José Luis Cantilo, during a celebration in Quilmes, her native city.

[9] Lilian Harrison's crossing the River Plate was remembered in the award winning work Crol, a theater recital by Verónica Schneck that premiered in 2015.