Guy Tracey attended the Thames Nautical Training College at HMS Worcester, Dartford before serving in the Royal Navy in World War I. A member of the Great Britain I bobsleigh team that finished one place behind the British II bob at the 1928 Olympics, Tracey certainly had a thirst for adventure. He once had a ranch in Texas, prospected for gold in Australia, was a planter in Kenya, and played polo across Europe. However, in 1932 he set off on his greatest adventure, when he was one of nine men who set sail from Brixham in Devon, and headed to the Spanish Main to try and locate treasure stolen by pirates from Spanish galleons hundreds of years earlier. The mission ended after one year when they were found in the Caribbean Sea low on fuel and food.
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