Poole and Bournemouth, Dorsetshire.— At eight o'clock in the evening of the 4th of September, 1949, the South bourne coastguard reported that a small vessel was on fire near Poole harbour entrance.

At 8.5 the life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched in a rough sea, with'a moderate east-south-east gale blowing.

She found the yacht Audrey, of Poole, which had had an explosion in her engine-room, in tow of a fishing boat and took the owner on board, returning to her station by 9.35. The fishing boat beached the yacht in Shell Bay.— Rewards, £4 19s..