Louis Becke and Bully Hayes
At the age of 19 Louis Becke was working in Mrs Macfarland’s store in Apia, Samoa. He sailed a ketch, the E.A. Williams to Mili Atoll to deliver it to Hayes, arriving on 17 January 1874. Louis Becke remained as a passenger on the Leonora, until the ship was wrecked on 15 March 1874 during a storm while in Lele harbour at Kosrae. It was seven months until HMS Rosario rescued Louis Becke and the others. Later Becke use his experience of his time with Hayes in his Pacific stories. In some he tells the story of Hayes that are based on first-hand experience although there may be some element of storytelling in his published accounts of his time with Bully Hayes: Captain ‘Bully’ Hayes, Concerning ‘Bully’ Hayes,The Wreck of the Leonora: A Memory of 'Bully' Hayes.
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