Poole, Dorset.—At 4.15 on the morning of the 29th of May, 1957, the South- bourne coastguard telephoned that a small yacht needed help as she was aground opposite the Sandbanks pavi- lion. The life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright put out at 4.25 in a slight sea.

There was a moderate easterly breeze blowing and it was low water. The life-boat came up with the yacht Brief Encounter, of Southampton, with a crew of two. The second coxswain boarded the yacht, and the life-boat stood by until the tide began to flood.

The yacht was then taken in tow to Sandbanks, where the second cox- swain returned to the life-boat, which reached her station at 7.30.—Rewards to the crew, £9 16s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £l 16s..