On the morning of the 7th June, daring foggy weather, an intimation was received that a steamer had stranded on the eastern side of Carmel Point. The Cemlyu Lifeboat B. J. Nicholson was launched at 10 o'clock, and found that the vessel was the Moss Rose, of and from Liverpool, for Plymouth, with coal and a general cargo.

The boat remained alongside the steamer and eventually brought ashore a telegram which the captain wished to be despatched..