EMPTY CABIN CRUISER AND DINGHY FOUND Poole, Dorset. At 2.35 on the morning of the 30th September, 1962, the police informed the coastguard that two men were missing in a cabin cruiser. They had left twelve hours earlier to dig for bait at Goathorn inside Poole harbour.

The coastguard reported this to the honorary secretary at 2.50, and the lifeboat Bassett Green left her moorings at 3.10 in a southerly gale and a very rough sea at high water. The life-boat found the cabin cruiser Sea Knight ashore on Furzey Island with no one on board, and a search party was landed on the island. The men were not found but it was learnt that a dinghy was missing from the island.

The search party returned to the lifeboat, which then made for Brownsea Island and found the dinghy upside down. At 8.42 Niton radio reported that the two men had been landed safely at Sandbanks by the Brownsea Island boatmen, and the life-boat was recalled. She towed the cabin cruiser to safe moorings near by and then returned to her station, arriving at 10.15..