Schooner Jenkins, The

DESCRIPTION: "Come, shipmates, listen to my story, I'll sing you one both sad and true, How dark one night... Sank John Brown and his crew." The ship sets out in November, and is sunk. The crewmen who died are described in rather conventional terms
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (Oswego Palladium-Times)
KEYWORDS: ship death moniker
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Nov 30, 1875 - Sinking of the Isaac G. Jenkins. 8 people die
FOUND IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Walton/Grimm-Windjammers-SongsOfTheGreatLakesSailors, pp. 220-221, 'The Schooner Jenkins" (1 text)
Roud #19867
File: WGM220

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