THE Greek Government has awarded to the Selsey and Bognor motor life-boat its silver nautical medal for gallantry, in gratitude for the service to the steamer Menelaos, which was in distress on 2nd November, 1930.1 A gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, that day.

The life-boat had already been out on service in the morning and had rescued the crew of two men of the yacht Lucy B., of Rye—a service for which Cox- swain Frederick Barnes received the Institution's bronze medal, and each member of the crew the thanks of .the i See The Life-toot for February, 1931.

Institution inscribed on vellum. Then, during the afternoon, the crew had stood by, as there was a good deal of shipping in the Channel. Shortly after ten at night the S O S of the Menelaos was received. The life-boat put out and found her with her steering-gear disabled and her hatches stove in.

Twelve of the crew had already been rescued by a Leyland liner, but the liner dared not stand by any longer, as the Menelaos was drifting rapidly into shoal water. The life-boat got alongside and rescued the remaining seven men.

The steamer herself became a total wreck..