On October 13, 1905, the Boston Evening Transcript printed a letter from former "chantieman" George Meacom of Boston, "Master Mariner." Meacom listed 19 chanteys he recalled siging "more than one half of a century" earler, i.e., in the early to mid 1850s:

"Pumping chanties":

Mobile Bay ("Johnnie come tell us and pump away")
Fire, Fire, Fire Down Below
One More Day
Old Joe (an 1840s minstrel song)

"Anchor chanties":

The Wide Missouri
Leave Her Johnnie
The Black Ball Line
Homeward Bound
Lowlands
Poor Paddy Works on the Railway
"and others"

"Setting sails chanties":

Reuben Ranzo
Blow, Boys, Blow
Storm Aong
Whiskey for My Johnnie
Haul the Bowline
Haul Away Joe
Tom's Gone to Ilo
I Am Bound Away
Paddy Doyle's Boots
"and others"