Kinross Swimming and Life Saving Club KS & LSC

Kinross Swimming and Life Saving Club KS & LSC Swimming and Life Saving Club In the mid-1950s, it moved to where it is today, in the beachfront near the Wellawatte Railway Station.

Kinross Club was a rather simple affair when it was founded in 1941 by Mike Sirimanne, on the beach facing Kinross Avenue in Bambalapitiya from which it took its name of the famous Scottish town. It was a mere hut serving as a clubhouse, and had a bathing enclosure in the sea formed with a couple of rafts and several orange barrels. It was then a very simple cadjan roofed structure, and then, as n

ow, taught swimming and life saving skills to young men. It was most famous for its ‘6 Mile Swim’, an annual event where swimmers had to swim all the way from the club to Mount Lavinia Beach and return. It also introduced spear fishing to the country. Several lives have been saved by the life guards manning the sea from the club watchtower/ house.

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NO 10 Station Road (Marine Drive/Colombo Plan Road)
Colombo

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