Less than twelve hours later the Selsey Life-boat was again called out.

During the afternoon the Crew had stood by, as there was a good deal of traffic in the Channel, and the second call came at 10.20 P.M., when news was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was in distress five or six miles S.S.W. of Selsey Bill. A strong gale was still blowing, though it had moderated a little since the morning, and a very heavy sea was running. It-was only with great difficulty and at considerable risk that the Crew boarded the Life-boat at her moorings by means of two shore boats. She got away at 10.40, and fifty minutes later she reached the vessel, the Greek steamer Menelaos, of Piraeus, laden with coal and coke and bound for Tunis from Rotterdam.

Her steering gear was disabled ; her hatches had been stove in ; and she was unmanageable. Earlier in the day the Motor Life-boat from Bembridge, Isle of Wight, had gone out to the Menelaos, but her crew had not then wished to leave her, and had asked that a tug should be sent to their help.

When the Selsey and Bognor Life-boat reached the steamer at 11.30 P.M. she found that twelve of the crew had already been taken off by a Leyland liner ; but the liner dared not stand by any longer, as the Menelaos was drifting rapidly towards shoal water, and had sent out an S.O.S. The Life-boat went alongside, and the remaining seven men on board the Menelaos climbed down a rope over the ship's side and dropped into the Life-boat. Just after midnight she brought them safely ashore. The Menelaos herself became a total wreck.

For this service the usual monetary awards were made..