At about 11 o'clock on the following morning the Life-boat again put off to the assistance of the barque Nereus, of Liverpool, bound from Barrow-in-Furness to Queensland with a cargo of steel rails.

Her cargo had shifted during severe gales, and while trying to receive a tug's hawser she came into collision with her, both vessels being damaged. She then endeavoured to make for Barrow, but, finding that impossible, she made her way for Liverpool. When close to the Bar Lightship she was taken in tow by a steamer, and afterwards took a pilot on board.

Just over the bar the wind suddenly shifted, and blew so strong that the steamer could not tow the vessel against the tide and wind; the pilot then ordered the vessel out to sea, but she became unmanageable, and, after drifting about for a long time, she fired rockets. The Life-boat with much difficulty, being repeatedly driven back from the vessel just as she was nearing her, eventually succeeded in resetting her crew of 24 men and a pilot, and brought them safely ashore..