Cutaway mast and let go 3 anchors. Heavy gale from the westward and heavy sea when the ship got a shore. I found a part of her rudder gone.

Wreck Report

Daily Int. -1-27-1877 - p.3- Coast Wreckers:- Yesterday's Port Townsend Argus furnishes the following additional particulars concerning the wrecked ship Commodore, and of the conduct of the Indians where she went ashore: "Captain Thompson, of the pilot schooner Lottie, informs us that the ship was wrecked about four miles to the south of Cape Flattery. Soon after she struck she was boarded by about two hundred Makah Indians, led by "Lighthouse Jim", as he is called, one of their chiefs, who made up to the Captain and demanded the ship's papers, saying that the ship was his. Captain Hastorf, to appease the horde of savages, gave them the ships stores and provisions, but told them they must not touch anything else. Soon after word reached Mr. Huntington, the Indian Agent as Neah Bay, inviting the shipwrecked mariners to the reservation. This was eagerly accepted, and, under the conduct of some to dispense with various articles of clothing and bedding, which were of course appropriated by the Indians for their own use. The wreck meanwhile was the scene of the most reckless waste imaginable. Sails and rigging were cut to pieces and divided up by the Indians till there was hardly anything left worth taking.