DOCTOR TAKEN TO FRENCH TANKER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 6th November, 1962, the honorary secretary received a telegram stating that the 37,000 ton tanker Esso Parentis, of Le Havre, had asked for a doctor. At 6.5 the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched with the station honorary medical adviser on board. There was a light easterly breeze, the sea was choppy, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the vessel half a mile south-east of East Newcombe buoy and put the doctor aboard. The doctor treated the injured man, who was then taken on board the life-boat. The life-boat reached Lowestoft at 7.30, where an ambulance was waiting..