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He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, one of three sons of Henry Hayes, a grog-shanty keeper. [1] Hayes became a sailor on the Great Lakes after running away from home. He is believed to have left New York as a passenger of the Canton on 4 March 1853, although when the ship reached Singapore on 11 July 1853 it was captained by Hayes, and sold by him there shortly after arrival. [7]
George Lewis Becke Born (1855-06-18) 18 June 1855 Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia Died 18 February 1913 (1913-02-18) (aged 57) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Known for short story writer and novelist Spouse Fanny Sabina Long Children Nora, Niya, Alrema George Lewis Becke (or Louis Becke ; 18 June 1855 – 18 February 1913) was at the turn of the nineteenth century, the most ...
In August 1871 Restieaux sailed with Bully Hayes on the Leonora and landed on Pingelap atoll where he traded as agent for Hayes until May 1872. Bully Hayes gave Restieaux a promissory note payable three months from date – this was never paid. [1] Restieaux sailed with Hayes through the Gilbert Islands (now known as Kiribati) and arrived in ...
Captain Bully Hayes is a 1970 Australian book by Frank Clune about Bully Hayes. It has been called "Perhaps the most reliable account of the life of Bully Hayes." [1] [2] [3] Clune had written about Hayes in an episode of his 1938 radio series Scallywags of the Pacific. [4] He also wrote about him in his 1938 book Free and Easy Land. [5]
Pease was described as “a satanic looking rascal with a black spade beard – [who] was a more openly piratical operator than [Bully] Hayes”. [4] Pease may have greater claim than Bully Hayes as being a South Sea pirate and "the last of the buccaneers," [5] [6] as Pease appears to have been engaged in filibustering in his activities in the opium trade after China's defeat in the Second ...
A reviewer in The Australian Star expressed an initial wariness with the novel, given that the author had moved his focus from bushrangers to Buccaneers but "it was well for one who, whether by personal visitation or reading, or intercourse with island men, had made himself familiar with the facts of the island life to weave them into such a romance as people of to-day and to-morrow would read ...
The Troubled-Teen Industry Has Been A Disaster For Decades. It's Still Not Fixed.
Bully Hayes, an American ship-captain who achieved notoriety for his activities in the Pacific from the 1850s to the 1870s, arrived in Papeete, Tahiti in December 1868 on his ship Rona with 150 men from Niue. Hayes offered them for sale as indentured labourers. [33]