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My Dad was an aircraft electrician and he was working on the motor torpedo boats in Hartlepool Harbour.

One day the air-sea rescue asked the motor torpedo boat to go and investigate a cobble seen ten miles offshore. (A cobble is just a small boat with oars). My dad went out on one of the motor torpedo boats with the crew and found a Polish escapee from the Channel Islands who had stolen the cobble, sailed around the channel and right around the North Sea Coast.

The escapee was ten miles offshore. My dad brought him home to our house for one night, before both being taken to hospital. My mother and father had fed and watered the POW. He must have been terribly de-hydrated and exhausted, but I don't know why my dad had to go to hospital.

He ended up in the bed next to my dad, until a couple of days later when he was whisked off by the intelligence services.

My dad never found out what had happened to him, but often wondered.

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