On the 2nd January, 1864, the barque Hamilton Gray, of Liverpool, ran ashore on DundramBar. The Newcastle life-boat proceeded to her, and took off 2 of her crew, when the boat was struck by a heavy sea, and got seriously damaged alongside the barque; some of her own crew being also washed overboard; she was accordingly obliged to return to the shore. The remainder of the barque's crew succeeded in landing safely in their own boat.