DOCTOR PUT ON BOARD TANKER IN SNOWSTORM Humber, Yorkshire. At five o'clock on the morning of the 16th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board a tanker two miles south of the Spurn Point coastguard look-out. There was a strong south-easterly breeze and a very rough sea. It was an hour and a half after low water. The life-boat City of Bradford III was launched at 6.5 with a doctor on board. She made for the position of the tanker in a severe snow storm. When the life-boat reached her, the tanker North King discharged oil to calm the sea, and with great difficulty the doctor boarded the tanker. After he had examined the sick man, the doctor and his patient were taken on board the life-boat, which then returned to her station, arriving at 8.10. The sick man was landed and taken to hospital..