I have already suggested that the third and fourth voyages of the "Julia Ann" provided plenty of opportunity for the use of some pumping shanties, since the "Julia Ann" sprung a leak in the harbor at Sydney on her third voyage out because she was thrown on the shore by a "buster". One of the pumping shanties I have suggested is some version of "Stormalong". See here:

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In his book THE MERCHANT VESSEL, first published in 1857, Charles Nordhoff tells of his experiences on a merchant vessel. While he does not specifically date them one would assume that these experiences happened within a few years prior to 1857, which would put them in the same time frame as that of the "Julia Ann", which was ship-wrecked in October of 1855.

Nordhoff describes the loading of cotton in Mobile, and gives us three "chants" used by the gangs of "screw men" to pack this cotton into the ship's hold. While in Nordhoff's context these songs are used as "cotton-screwing" songs, we know that they were also used at sea as shanties. Many of these "screw men" were Bristish and Irish sailors who went south to work in the winter time. The first of these songs is "Old Stormy", a version of "Stormalong" (page 41):

http://books.google.com/books?id=Kko9AAAAYAAJ&dq=Charles+Nordhoff,+The+Merchant+Vessel&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=CU3NFxy

"Old Stormy" also shows up in Alden's article in Harpers (1882) that we have been discussing (on page 284):

http://books.google.com/books?id=SsoaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA284&dq=To+me+way+storm+along!&lr=&cd=8#v=onepage&q=To%20me%20way%20storm%20al

And out on the other end, in Australia, "Mr. Stormalong" shows up in the singing of both George Pattison and Malcolm Forbes:

http://warrenfahey.com/ccarey-s23.htm

So not only am I suggesting that "Stormalong" might have been used as a pumping shanty on board the "Julia Ann", I am also saying that historically, it is certainly possible that it could have been there.

I would be interested in seeing some of the possible earlier versions of "Stormalong" or its precedents from the so-called " 'Ethiopian Collections' of Negro folk-song" which Hugill suggests might go back to the 1830s or 1840s (Hugill, p. 71/'61).