Poole, Dorset. At 1.10 early on the morning of the 21st July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small boat with a man and his daughter aboard, which had left Wareham the evening before without lights, was overdue. At 1.28 the life- boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched on a flood tide and began to search the approaches to Wareham river. There was a light westerly breeze with a smooth sea. The small boat, with the two occu- pants aboard, was found by the life-boat in the Wareham channel, where it had refloated after being aground for nearly three hours. The life-boat, in company with a police launch which had also joined in the search, escorted the boat to a safe berth in the river and then returned to her station, which she reached at 4.30..