| Name: | FLYING FOAM |
| Launched: | 01/1865 |
| Completed: | 05/1865 |
| Builder: | Blackwood & Gordon, Castle Yard, Port Glasgow |
| Yard Number: | 68 |
| Dimensions: | 88grt, 17nrt, 96.5 x 17.2 x 8.3ft |
| Engines: | SL2cyl (24 & 24 x 42ins), 50nhp; (1874: L2cyl (16 & 16 x 16ins), 25nhp) |
| Engines by: | Scott, Sinclair & Co, Greenock; (1874: Carr Fowler & Co, Sunderland) |
| Propulsion: | Paddle; (1874: 1 x Screw) |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 52593 |
| History: | |
| 12/05/1865 | Clyde Shipping Co (JP Kidston, manager); registered at Glasgow |
| 1869 | George Jardine Kidston, appointed as manager |
| 21/04/1874 | James Purdy Rennoldson, South Shields; registered at South Shields |
| 16/12/1874 | James Brodie, North Shields; registered at North Shields |
| 1875 | Unknown owner, Russia |
| No later history known | |
| Comments: | Designed as a tug but also a tender with capacity for 300 x passengers |
| Engine made in 1848 ex WIZARD | |
| 1874: Re-engined & converted into a screw tug |