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Chloe

Poole, Dorset. At 12.15 early on the morning of the 4th of August, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Chloe had left Wareham for Sandbanks at 5.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August and had not arrived. They also reported that two men fishing in the harbour were missing. At 12.35 the life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched in a moderate sea. There was a fresh south-westerly wind and it was high water. The life- boat found the cabin cruiser with five people on board aground in the River Wareham. The five people were trans- ferred to the life-boat and brought to Poole. The coxswain was then in- formed that the fishermen had still not returned home and a search of the harbour was carried out, but the life- boat found nothing and returned to her station at six o'clock. Later that morning the police informed the hon- orary secretary that the missing fisher- men were safely ashore. Rewards to the crew, £12 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..