RUSSIAN SEAMAN At 10 a.m. on nth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a seaman in the Russian vessel Vetlugales needed medical aid. The vessel was moored near middle Shoebury buoy in a smooth sea and light airs from the south-west. It was one hour before low water when, at 11.46, the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched with a doctor aboard. There was a thick fog but, helped by the radar from a nearby vessel, the life-boat found the Vetlugales and brought a sick seaman ashore. She returned to her station at 1.30 p.m..