The Wreck of The Leonora
In January 1874 Louis Becke, who later wrote stories of the exploits of Bully Hayes, joined the Leonora at Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Leonora was wrecked on 15 March 1874 during a storm while in Utwe/Tahf harbour on the south coast of Kosrae at what is now the Utwe-Walong Marine Park on Kosrae.
After the wreck Hayes brawled with the European traders on Kosrae and with his crew, with the islanders being subject to seven months of oppression and violence. In September of that year HMS Rosario under Captain Dupuis arrives and Hayes is arrested, but yet again he escaped, this time by a 14 foot boat, built of timber from the wreck of the Leonora.
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“Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.”
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