Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At about noon on the 22nd January, 1939, information was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in diffi-culties off Boscombe Pier. A S.W.

breeze was blowing with a rough sea.

The new motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright put out on her first service at 12.20 P.M. She found that two of the crew of three had left in the dinghy and reached Boscombe Pier. A lifeboatman was put aboard the Snapper and she was then towed to Poole by the life-boat which arrived back at her station at 4'.15 P.M.—Rewards, £7 155. 6d..