Tune added as requested. See tune link up top. I don't think it works for the other song with a related name, The Anford-Wright. That song comes from Cox's Folk-Songs of the South, which does not have a tune for the song. I'm guessing that Amphitrite, Anford-Wright, and Rounding the Horn are all about the same song?
-Joe Offer-

Here's some information from Malcolm (from this message):

103 AMPHITRI  THE ANFORD-WRIGHT
From Cox, Folk-Songs of the South. No tune was noted and this appears to be the only example found in tradition of an English broadside ballad,  Loss of the Amphitrite. Roy Palmer, Boxing the Compass, 2001, p. 206, gives details of the event of 1833 which inspired the piece.

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Here's the entry from the Traditional Ballad Index:

Loss of the Amphitrite, The [Laws K4]

DESCRIPTION: The Amphitrite leaves port, bound for Australia. Two days out she runs aground and sinks, killing all the passengers and most of the crew. The singer and two others survive by clinging to a spar (though one of them dies later)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Cox; there are older, undated broadsides)
KEYWORDS: ship wreck
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1833 - The Amphitrite, carrying female convicts to Australia, runs aground near Boulogne; only three sailors are saved
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Laws K4, "The Loss of the Amphitrite"
JHCox 87, "The Anford-Wright" (1 text)
DT 740, AMPHITRI
Roud #301
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Rounding the Horn" (subject)
Notes: Cox gives a contemporary description of the storm in which the Amphitrite sank. - RBW
File: LK04

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