Ewan MacColl wrote, I think for his 'radio ballads program', a song lamenting the passing of the age of sail & the last of the tall ships. I don't know exactly when he did this but since the 1976 tall ships parade the passing never came to be. I don't even know the song's title, but here's the last verse.

Goodbye ya square riggers your voyage has ended
Farewell to the days of sail
Goodbye ya Cape Horners & every tall ship
That ever did fight a gale
Goodbye to the shellbacks that romed the winds
In a world of sea & sky
Your voyage is over, your journey has ended
You mariners all goodbye.

I quess the sea is my soft spot. Barry