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Detlef Mittman

INJURED MAN At 6.15 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, the coxswain was notified that the Port Medical Officer wished to board a German tanker which had an injured man on board. The tanker was due off the harbour at 8 p.m. As it was low water it was decided to launch the life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant. She proceeded at 7.40 with a doctor on board in a light easterly breeze and a slight sea. The lifeboat went alongside the motor vessd Detlef Mill-man and took off an injured seaman. She then returned to her station, arriving at 8.30 p.m., where an ambulance was waiting to take the man to hospital..