INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 10.38 on the morning of the 2nd August, 1962, the honorary secretary at Lowestoft passed on to the honorary secretary at Aldeburgh a report from the Lowestoft port medical officer that an injured man on board the motor vessel British Oak, of London, needed medical attention. The vessel was at anchor seven miles southeast of Southwold. At 10.50 the life-boat The Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched with a doctor on board. There was a light westerly breeze and a slight sea, and it was an hour and a half before high water. When the life-boat reached the motor vessel, the injured man was transferred to her. The life-boat landed him at Aldeburgh, where he was taken by ambulance to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at two o'clock..