I don't think anyone has mentioned "Christmas Day in the Workhouse" which contains these two nautical verses:

It was the schooner Hesperus.
It was sinking with all hands on shore;
So we wired, "Send the lifeboat from Wigan,
We've never had that here before."

But the brave lifeboat men, sir, at Wigan,
Replied on a postcard, "No fear!"
It's too far to come to the Goodwins.
Wrap the wreck up and send it on here."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble