APRIL 21ST. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. During the afternoon the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, foundered in Bournemouth Bay when on a pleasure cruise with about seventy people on board.

The weather was fine, the sea smooth. The information reached the life-boat station through the police and the coastguard about 2.55, and the motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched at 3.10. She found the work of rescue had almost been completed by other boats, but picked up a man on a raft and put him on board one of the other boats.

She returned to her station at five o’clock.

Only one life was lost, a member of the crew of the Skylark who jumped overboard, collapsed and was drowned. - Rewards, £3 10s. 6d. (See Bournemouth, “Services by Shore-boats,” page 75.).