The most persons that a single "Seenotdienst" aircraft rescued in one sortie was 99 children and 14 adults carried by a Do 24, saved from orphanages threatened by the Soviet advance into Koszalin during the Battle of Kolberg at the beginning of March 1945. The load was so great that the aircraft was unable to take off—instead, it wave-hopped and taxied back to base. During the same battle, six boats working with the "Seenotdienst" made repeated trips March 17–18 to a pier in Kolberg and evacuated 2,356 people.