Melancholy News of the Convict Ship George the Third

DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, dear friends and comrades all"; the singer, who is being transported, wishes those he leaves behind well. They strike a rock near the mouth of the Derwent in Tasmania. The guards keep them on the ship. 134 are killed in the wreck
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1835 (Hobart Town Courier, according to Ingleton; Anderson dates the broadsides c. 1835)
KEYWORDS: transportation wreck disaster death
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Mar 12, 1835 - Wreck of the _George III_ with the loss of 134 of 294 aboard (source: Wikipedia)
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 155-156, "Melancholy News of the Convict Ship George the Third" (1 text)
Geoffrey C. Ingleton, _True Patriots All: or News from Early Australia as told in A Collection of Broadsides_ ("Garnered and Decorated" by Ingleton), Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988, pp. 156-157, "(no title)" (1 text, listed as a "lines," on a broadside that is primarily an announcement of the "Melancholy News of the COnvict Ship, GEORGE THE THIRD, a Total Wreck, with the Loss of 133 Souls")
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, pp. 122-123, "Melancholy News of the Convict Ship George the Third" (1 text, with a tune on p. 554)
Roud #V46385
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Loss of the Amphitrite" [Laws K4] (similar shipwreck)
File: AnFa155

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