I've been singing Harry Eddom since re-hearing it in Hull over ten years ago. Just a couple of weeks ago, someone sang "The Luckiest Sailor" at the Stork singaround in the Glasson Maritime Festival - a very poignant song. I've also heard Mike Waterson and Blue Murder singing the Three Ships/Cold Coast of Iceland arrangement.

I would very much like to hear the Lament for the Hull Trawlers. Any ideas where it may be found?

I had no idea Frankie had written this. I met her last year at Blue Mountains FF in Katoomba and would have quizzed her about it had I known. I live in Fleetwood, Lancs, a fishing town which suffered similar losses over the years, but not in quite the same relentless succession as the Three Trawlers tragedy.

Ron Baxter's song "Lost" lists the trawlers that sailed from Fleetwood, where lives were lost with the ship, and describes some of the circumstances that led to their loss. The list is based on that displayed on the Fisherman's Memorial near the Lower Light on Fleetwood Promenade. The memorial was devised by Dick Gillingham and Dave Pearce. Some of the money raised for the project came from sales of a video that they put together from film clips taken by trawlermen at sea. Gives some idea of the atrocious conditions these men faced.

Royalty, thanks for your post, which echoes the experience of "The Luckiest Sailor". It is important that people remember these things, and pass them on.

Ross