The ketch Foam, Captain Ashburn, left Lyttelton on May 5, with a cargo of oats for Hokitika. On the 17th !when 8 miles from Greymouth she met with a heavy gale, and on the 19th a |ea struck her carrying away the mizenmast, port cathead, bulwarks, and smashed the boat. On the 24th sprung her bowsprit, and kept away for Nelson for repairs, when off the Spit lost the jibsail in a squall and having then no command she run on the Spit where she now lies a wreck. Captain Walker, of the Lady Barkly, having seen the Foam on the Spit, kindly brought over her crew to Nelson this morning.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 129, 2 June 1871, Page 2
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111Untitled Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 129, 2 June 1871, Page 2
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