Actress missing at sea, CID probe. Detectives when the board the Union Castle Liner Durban Castle at Southampton today (Saturday), to investigate the disappearance from the ship of the first-class passenger Gay Gibson, 19-year-old redheaded actress, whose cabin, number 126, was found to be empty. On the morning of 18 October. She was seen to go to her cabin shortly after midnight on the 17th, after attending a ship stance. A knight stewardss, answering a summons from the cabin sometime afterwards, is said to have had the door slammed in his face by a man. Another passenger is stated to have heard a crash from the cabin during the night. Detectives who boarded the vessel in Cowes Road at dawn today have interviewed two men passengers and three members of the crew. Photo shows, the door of cabin 126, smeared with material used by fingerprint experts, is brought ashore from the Durban Castle at Southampton today (Saturday) for further examination. 25 October 1947