Golden Hind, The

DESCRIPTION: Jim Harding ships on board the Golden Hind bound for Bahia. On the return trip with a cargo from Barbados the Golden Hind runs into a snow storm off Cape Race. Harding dies in the storm as the Golden Hind makes St John's.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (MUNFLA/Leach)
KEYWORDS: grief death sea ship storm sailor
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Peacock, pp. 922-924, "The Golden Hind" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9938
RECORDINGS:
Jim Rice, "The Golden Hind" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
NOTES [115 words]: Obviously not Francis Drake's Golden Hind. Bahia is on the coast of Brazil. - BS
Although Francis Drake is not part of Newfoundland history, a ship named the Golden Hind was. Humphrey Gilbert, who is considered to have founded Newfoundland as a colony (although his expedition was a disaster in which Gilbert himself died), sailed in a convoy of five ships, one of which was a 40 to vessel called the Golden Hind, which survived the voyage (see Paul O'Neill, The Oldest City: The Story of St. John's, Newfoundland, Press Procepic, 1975, pp. 38-39). That obviously isn't the Golden Hind of this song, either, but I would suspect there were later Newfoundland ships named for her. - RBW
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