Cape Horn

DESCRIPTION: The ship is heading north from Cape Horn with a pleasant breeze. "She will run ten knots an hour with a good man at the wheel"
AUTHOR: Richard C. Reynolds (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
EARLIEST DATE: 1844 (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
KEYWORDS: travel commerce sea ship whale sailor whaler
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 150, "Cape Horn" (1 text)
Roud #31387
NOTES [132 words]: Grumpy editorial comment: This Richard C. Reynolds doesn't know his units of measurement. Knots per hour is not a speed. Knots are a speed: nautical miles per hour. Knots per hour would be a rate of acceleration. A sailor might not know the distinction, but an officer should.
Reynolds wrote at least eight texts included in Frank-JollySailorsBold: "On a Passage to the Crozet Islands," "Cape Horn," "Address to Young Sailors," "The Lay System," "Landsmen One and All (I)," "Landsmen One and All (II)," and "On New Years Day." As of when this was entered into the Ballad Index, we have no other pieces by him, and all his indexed pieces were obscure; none have tunes associated with them. I doubt they qualify as folk songs. And it doesn't appear that any of his poems were widely published. - RBW
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File: FJSB150

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