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Besides Jim and myself there a host of volunteers who have spent hours doing work on this project from all over the world. Here are some who we acknowledge in the book:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book could not have been completed without the encouragement and hard work of dozens of people all over the world. First of all we recognize Danny McLeod of the United Kingdom (UK) who has played such a principal role as a performer and researcher in reintroducing Cicely Fox Smith as a nautical poet to the world. Other major researchers include Alan Hardy (UK), A. B. Blackmore (UK), W. H. Webb (UK), John Edgar Mann (UK), Ian "Nobby" Dye (UK), and Bob Zentz (US).

Alan Fitzsimmons (UK) deserves special mention for first adapting so many of the poems that have been sung by McLeod and his bandmates. Other singers who have played a major role in adapting Smith's poems for singing include Bob Roberts (UK), Sarah Morgan (UK), Dick Miles of Ireland, Bob Zentz (US), Gordon Morris and Peter Massey (UK), William Pint and Felicia Dale (US), Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman (UK), Barrie Temple (UK), and Tom Lewis of Canada.

In addition there are web-based resource groups that were also of great assistance. Project Gutenburg deserves special mention for its on-line archives of Punch Magazine (up to and including 1922). Oldpoetry is a website where the entire collection of Smith's poetry (as of 2011) is now available. The Mudcat Café is a website for those interested in folk music whose forum has provided spirited discussion of Smith's work, clues for further research, and in some cases invaluable volunteers from all over the world.

There are the many volunteers who conducted research, photocopied or scanned hundreds of pages from exceedingly rare books or periodicals which could not be readily purchased in the used book market. Major work was done by Jenna Ipcar (US); Margaret Walters of Australia; Aziza Cooper and Bill Huot of Canada; Chris Roche, Jake Wade and Barrie Mathers of the United Kingdom.

Finally, we would like to thank Joanie DiMartino who introduced us to our publisher Michael Linnard, a publisher who had the courage and determination to see that this vast inventory of poems was republished as completely as possible.

We cannot personally thank everyone who has been of assistance in this project but know that your work was greatly appreciated.

Charles Ipcar and James Saville