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Thread #137348   Message #3141377
Posted By: Charley Noble
23-Apr-11 - 08:50 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Naval Battles & Storms
Subject: RE: Folklore: Naval Battles & Storms
There's also "The Bold Benjamin" which if you go back to the broadside version as reprinted in John Ashton's REAL SAILOR-SONGS explains that it was a storm that devastated this poor ship, not a battle:

We set sail five hundred men,
Oh, me boys, ohh!
We set sail five hundred men-o!
We set sail five hundred men,
And we've come back but fifty-one,
They was lost on Bold Benjamin, oh!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble