THREE GIRLS LANDED FROM GROUNDED CRUISER Poole, Dorset. At 11.50 on the night of Saturday the 31st August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from Poole police that a small cabin cruiser had gone ashore off Brownsea Island with three youths and three girls on board. Two youths had rowed ashore and stated that the cruiser did not need any assistance. But after consultations between the police and the young people's parents and in view of the state of the weather the honorary secretary decided to send the life-boat Bassett Green to investigate. It was 5 min- utes past midnight. The tide was on the ebb and there was a gentle breeze from the north-east and a smooth sea. The cabin cruiser Seabreeze was located and three girls taken off and landed at Poole quay, the three youths having decided to stay with the cruiser. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 1.0 a.m. A gift was made to the life-boat crew by the father of one of the girls..