Hi. I was listening to my Frankie Armstrong album "Songs and Ballads" yesterday, after a gap of many years, and the Lament for the Hull Trawlers is on this album. I learned it in the late '70s, early '80s from this album, and sang it in folk clubs as a "floor singer", with mistakes which I'm now happy to correct. When I heard it yesterday, I realised that it was all still in my head, and has now been released back into what I think of as my mainstream memory.

Thank you to all those who have been involved in this discussion, not least those who experienced life on trawlers in the '60s. I'm from Kent, but this song back when I was young was so powerful I had to learn it. Even now, when I sing it in front of someone, I get choked enough that it can become quite difficult to keep on singing.

Incindentally, the link posted by gnomad in 2004 doesn't work now. However, there is information here about the "Triple Trawler Tragedy".