John-

Hmmmmm?

After exploring your link to The Rush For California - A Sailing Day, I was surprised to find the bunting shanty "We'll Pay Paddy Doyle for His Boots" being described as a halyard shanty. No way, unless the ship was manned by a whole crew of recently graduated shantymen from the Rise Up Singing University.

But interesting reading.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble