“The Georgina”
Description
"On the seventeenth of March, my boys, good people you all may know" Georgina leaves Liverpool "all bound for Pernambuco in South America" [fragment; first verse only]
Notes
Ranson: Tune is "Thomas Murphy" on p. 98. - BS
Historical references
- Mar 17, 1844 - Georgina wrecked on Blackwater Bank; twelve of the crew of fourteen are lost (source: Ranson; Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 44)
Same tune
- cf. "Thomas Murphy" (tune)
Cross references
- cf. "The Pomona (II)" (subject)
References
- Ranson, p. 109, "The Georgina" (1 text, 1 tune)
- BI, Ran109