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Thread #126347 Message #2860390
Posted By: Charley Noble
09-Mar-10 - 03:57 PM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Gibb-
"Haul away, yeo ho boys"
Might have been a rowing shanty. Nice to have one documented so early in the 19th century.
Oh, I ran across this on-line Nordhoff book titled NINE YEARS A SAILOR, 1866, which includes all three of his previous books: U. S. Naval Service, American and British Merchant Marine, and Whaling Service: Click here for website
There's a great description of sailors on leave in 1848 Valparaiso.
I was hoping to find my "missing" illustration of the screw-jack team but no such luck.