Little Ships (I)

DESCRIPTION: "They're the little ships that Winston Churchill forgot, And he didn't know when one of them got lost. He'd not forget the Rodney, the Nelson or the Hood," but they do the hard work of escorting convoys, and suffer greatly, and are ignored
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1987 (Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy)
KEYWORDS: navy sailor work travel hardtimes derivative
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy, p. 94, "Little Ships" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "She's a Tiddley Ship" (mentions of HMS Nelson, Rodney, Hood) and notes there
cf. "The 23rd Flotilla" (subject: the hard life of convoy escorts) and references there
cf. "The Little Boy that Santa Clause Forgot" (tune)
File: Tawn070

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