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Zeeland

PATIENT ON DUTCH TUG At 10.3 p.m. on i9th February, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the Dutch tug Zeeland, which was standing by the coaster David M. off Hayle Bar, had an injured man on board who needed medical attention. There was a moderate easterly breeze with a choppy sea, and the tide was ebbing. The lifeboat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 10.30 with the station honorary medical adviser on board. The doctor treated the injured man on board the tug and decided it was unnecessary to take him to hospital. The life-boat, with the doctor on board, returned to her station at 12.30 a.m. the following morning..