This is a version from the George Gardiner collection.
Frederick White was collected in Southampton Workhouse, and was an Australian seaman who was in the Infirmary with an Ulcer of the Leg.
Gardiner collected around a dozen or so songs from him, and The Banks of Claudy, sung by him, can be heard on the EFDSS recording - a Century of Song.

Tim Radford

The Loss of the Ramillies - Frederick White - H384.
Roud 523

It was on one day, one certain day,
When the Ramillies at her anchor lay,
That very night a gale came on,
And our ship from her anchorage away did run.

The rain poured down in terrible drops,
The sea broke open our fore-top,
Our yards and our canvas neatly spread,
We were thinking to weather the Old Ram's Head.

Our bo'sun cries, my good fellows all,
Listen unto me while I blow my call,
Launch out your boats your lives to save,
For the seas this night will be our grave.

Then overboard our boat we tossed,
Some got in but some were lost,
There was some in one place, some in another,
The watch down below, they all were smothered.

When this sad news to Plymouth came,
That the Ramillies was lost and all of her men,
Excepting two that told the tale,
How the ship behaved in that dreadful gale.

Come all you pretty maids and weep along with me,
For the loss of your true lovers in the Ramillies,
All Plymouth town it flowed with tears,
When they heard the news of that sad affair.