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Suzy Jane

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. The police reported at 10.55 P-m- on 4tn July> I965» that flares had been seen south-east of Caldy Island. The life-boat Henry Cotnber Brown was launched at 11.12 in a light northerly breeze. There was a slight sea and the tide was flooding. The life-boat proceeded to Bullum Bay where the coxswain contacted the coastguard on the island, and was told that the flares had been seen off the Spaniel Buoy. The lifeboat subsequently found the motor fishing vessel Suzy Jane with her engine broken down. She was taken to Tenby and the life-boat reached her station at 12.45 a-m-.