I remember this song from my childhood in the 1950's. My dad sang it to me often. I sang it to my children and now my grandchildren. In 2003 while in Ireland in the Rings of Kerry i found a little music shop and inquired about the song, they knew it right away! I wasn't sure when or where my dad had heard it but it must have been passed down from his family. I couldn't ask dad anymore because he had Alzhemier's and was in a nursing home. On one visit shortly before his death, I sang it to him. Somewhere deep down in what was left of his memory I must have triggered something because he looked at me and a tear ran down his face. (I hope it wasn't my singing, but the song that made him react). I am so glad to have found the version that he sang ...about the life-saving captain... Sites like this one help to keep traditions and memories alive...Thank you so much.