I heard a woman sing it a month or so ago (Bampton or Boarhunt?) - I only remember the line "The days of the Montague whaler will not come again" or something miserable like that. The boat really deserves a much more robust sort of song.
I used to own such a whaler, in Portsmouth harbour, in the 1970's, but my earliest memory of one was from about 1960, fending one off from Haslar wall in a stiff breeze as we tried to make our way back to HMS Vernon, whence my naval uncle had borrowed it (the whaler, that is, not the wall.)