Voted £5 12s. 6d. to nine men, three of whom rescued and six of whom endeavoured to rescue, the crew, ten in number, of the S.8. Mellanear of Penzance, on the 4th September. Also granted 10s. for fuel consumed. The steamer, which was laden with coal, and bound from Cardiff to France, ran ashore at Peel Point, Land's End, during thick weather. On learning that the steamer was ashore, the six men put out from Sennen Cove, but on reaching her found that the crew had been taken off by the three men on the fishing boat Silver Stream, which, when returning from fishing, had heard the vessel's whistle and gone to her help. The boats stood by the Mellanear for about two hours, and then abandoned her. She became a total wreck. - The Lifeboat [815] March 1929.