The American ship Ellen Foster, Captain Anderson, from Callao for Utsalady, was wrecked in Neah Bay in December. The vessel sighted Cape Flattery at 9:00 A. M., December 21st, but a strong east wind kept her from making any headway until the next morning, when she caught a light northeaster which sent her twenty miles up the Straits by noon. Here she encountered a hurricane from east southeast and ran for Neah Bay, anchoring in nine fathoms of water; but both anchors would not hold her and she dragged to the reef, striking at 3:00 P. M. and beginning to break up at once. The crew reached shore in the lifeboat and on the twenty-ninth were taken to Port Townsend by the tug Cyrus Walker. Wright

In1929 a big bronze cannon was brought to the surface by a "hard hat" diver near Neah Bay. It bore the seal of the State of Massachusetts, and was probably from the Ellen Foster lost in 1867. Jim Gibbs met the son of Benjamin in Seattle and viewed the cannon in the back of a pickup truck. It is possible Benjamin was salvaging the FV Alice B. Gibbs