Wolfgang...the thing is, there are SO many songs that are not in the database...yet!.I had a hunch, and I went to mt bookcase and picked up "Songs of the Wexford Coast", which includesa a lot of shipwreck ballads, and opened it at random...the first thing I saw was, "The Pomona"..which begins "On the twenty-seventh of April, from Liverpool set sail..", so I suspect there are many songs of this sort which are just not in general circulation...

(Oh...the next song I flipped to was "The Pethard Life-boat Crew"...line 4.."On the twentieth of February, at the hour os two o'clock...")

and the next..."The Wreck of the Eliza" beginning "On the twenty-fourth of December in Eighteen-ninety-five.."

I wonder if there is a day in the year that DOESN'T have a shipwreck song.....I think I will look thru the books I have and make a list...will post my findings....