All what comes now is from Eric Bogle's LP 'Down Under', on which Bogle sings three of Robertson's songs, Homeless Man, Wee pot stove, and Queensland Whalers. These are the only ones I know and they make me want to hear more from this writer.

Harry Robertson is/was in Australia "since more than 25 years" (written in 1980). He has "served with both the British and Australian whaling fleets". Wee Pot Stove "he wrote about the British whaling fleet...(where he) worked as part of the maintenance crew who went round the whaling ships doing essential maintenance works when the ships were laid up during the off season. There was of course no 'steam up' in these ships when they were laid up. So there was no heating abord the ships and it was therefore often very cold. The amintenance crew used to carry around with them a little iron stove, in which they would put everything that burned in an effect to keep warm."

Wolfgang