Here is a bit of history and some of the words
Freight rates in the 1870s allowed ore to travel more cheaply to Swansea by sea from Newfoundland than by rail from Cornwall. Even so, the sea voyage across the Atlantic Ocean had its dangers. On 25 September 1875, the brig Jura left Tilt Cove for Swansea with a load of copper ore and ran into a storm that broke open the main hatch and toppled the masts. As one of the ten sailors aboard related in a song called 'Loss of the Brig Jura':
"We worked to clear the wreck while the tempest loud did roar,
And we sadly thought of home and friends we never might see no more;
While some were lashed unto the pumps to keep the vessel free,
And more were heaving copper ore into the raging sea."
Their valiant efforts failed to save the brig, and at last crewmen had to climb upon a passing barque and leave the Jura to her doom:
"With four feet of water in her hold, her mast and booms just gone,
She would be at the bottom long before the day was done,
With a heavy load of copper ore the Jura she went down,
And she was bound from Tilt Cove across to Swansea town.(29)"Information copy-pasted from the link cited above.
-Joe Offer-