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Wancoma

BALLYWALTER.—On the 20th October, the brigantine Wancoma, of Belfast, struck on Wallace's Bocks, about a mile south of the Bally waiter Life-boat station, at about 11.45 P.M., during a fresh gale. She was boarded by a Coastguard galley at 12.30, but the master and crew refused to leave the vessel until daylight. At low water 7 of the crew left the ship, but the master and 1 of the crew still remained on board. At high water the next morning the vessel floated, and, her rudder being broken, she drifted helplessly on to the Twin Bocks, the 2 men on board being rescued by the Admiral Henry Meynell Life-boat stationed at BaHywalter. The vessel subsequently became a total wreck..