Minute Gun at Sea, The

DESCRIPTION: Off England's shore the minute gun warns ships in a storm. Life boats from the shore rescue a crew of a wrecked ship protected and guided by the minute gun.
AUTHOR: R.S. Sharpe (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
EARLIEST DATE: 1835 (_A Select Collection of Songs_)
KEYWORDS: rescue sea ship shore storm wreck sailor England
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 187, "The Minute Gun at Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: _The Universal Songster and Museum of Mirth_ (Boston: Charles Gaylord, 1835 (available on Google Books)), pp. 144-145, "The Minute Gun at Sea" ("Let him who sighs in sadness here") (1 text)
Roud #13787
NOTES [67 words]: "[A] Minute gun refers to the procedure of firing ship's cannon at one-minute intervals in foggy or stormy weather as a means of ship location and warning: the equivalent of a modern foghorn." (Frank-JollySailorsBold p. 387). - BS
This seems to have been very popular in broadsides, and eventually was found in some editions of the Forget-Me-Not Songster, but it is not in my copy of that book. - RBW
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File: FJSB187

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