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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 11.36 p.m. on 24th July, 1967, news was received that six children were missing in the Freshwater area. They were last seen playing on the beach at 6.30. The lifeboat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 11.43. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat fired flares and also used her searchlight to assist people searching on the cliffs. The children were found and rescued by people on the shore and the life-boat returned to her station at 3 a.m. on 25th July..