Poole, Dorset.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 27th of September, 1957, a message was received that the cabin cruiser Rani IV, with a woman and three boys on board, was overdue from a trip in the harbour. After further enquiries the life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched at 9.15 in a calm sea with a light west-north- westerly breeze blowing. The tide was flooding. The life-boat found the cabin cruiser off Brownsea Island with her engine broken down and took her in tow to Poole quay, arriving at 10.30.—Rewards to the crew, £5; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..