“The Montague”
Description
"The Montague packet left Wexford at ten, With a fine stock of cattle and a fine crew of men, Hee Ho, Heave away, ho." Montague gets stuck in the sand and the cargo is lost: two cows, six sheep, a goat, and a sow.
Notes
Possibly Montagu, a Liverpool steamship [which] "struck the bar at Wexford" April 25, 1878 (source: Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 51). - BS
References
- Ranson, p. 27, "The Montague" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Roud #7355
- BI, Ran027