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Flying Foam

NEWCASTLE, Co. DOWN.—At 2 A.M. on the 5th of April a messenger arrived from Murlogh and reported that a vessel, which subsequently proved to be the ship Flying Foam, of Liverpool, bound from that port to Quebec, with salt and iron ballast, was ashore near Dandrnm Bar. The weather at the time was thick, with rain, and the sea was rough and variable. Five men and the captain's wife who had landed had made their way to the messenger's cottage, and stated that the remainder of the crew were on board the vessel and required assistant. The crew of the Farnley Life-boat were summoned, and the boat proceeded to the ship and found that two of her boats had left when she went ashore, one of which landed the five men and the captain's wife, but the other was not seen until 7 o'clock, when she was observed 3 miles W. of the vessel, and in making for the shore she capsized in the surf off Newcastle, and all her crew were unfortunately drowned. Eleven men who had remained on board the ship were taken into the Life-boat and brought safely ashore.