Poole, Dorset.—At 11.40 on the night of the 29th of April, 1956, the police rang up to say that a sailing dinghy with two young men aboard was over- due from a trip within the harbour.

The life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched at 12.15 early on the 30th in a calm sea. A light north- easterly breeze was blowing and the tide was flooding. The life-boat made a search and with the aid of the search- light found the dinghy among some rocks in the harbour. She took the two men on board and towed the dinghy to Sandbanks, where the men were landed. The life-boat reached her station again at two o'clock.— Rewards to the crew, £5; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..