Poole, Dorset. — At 10.30 on the night of the llth of March, 1957, a telephone message was received from the police that a boat with two boys on board was missing and that the boys' parents were becoming anxious.

A search party was arranged from the shore, and at 10.45 the life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright "vvas launched in a slight sea. There was a moderate south-easterly breeze blowing and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat searched the harbour and found a fourteen-feet boat, with an outboard engine, anchored, with three boys on board. A member of the crew boarded the boat, and the life-boat took her in tow after the three boys had been transferred. The life-boat reached her station again at 11.45.—Rewards to the crew, £8 15^.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16*..