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Gay Venture

LIFE-BOATMEN RECOVER DRIFTING LAUNCH Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.8 a.m. on Monday the 12th of August, 1963, the Tenby coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the motor launch Gay Venture was missing from her moorings. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 2.20 in a moderate west-north-westerly wind and moderate sea. It was three hours after high water. The life-boat found the motor launch, which had no one on board, two and a half miles west-southwest of Caldy Island. Two members of the life-boat crew were put aboard the launch, started the engine and brought her into Tenby. The life-boat returned to her station at 8.20..