Poole, Dorset. At 6.45 on the evening of the 5th of February, 1961, the honor- ary secretary was told by the police that calls for help had been heard coming from the direction of Holes Bay. When the life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched at seven o'clock it was low water and there was a fresh south- westerly wind with a moderate sea. At 7.15 the life-boat found a small motor cruiser aground with one man on board.

She pulled the vessel clear, and the man was transferred to the life-boat, which towed the motor cruiser to Poole quay.

The life-boat returned to her station at eight o'clock..