Shortly after Pride of Baltimore I went down, I wrote "The Loss of the Pride Of Baltimore" as a pumping chantey.

Here's the first verse and chorus:

o-oh have you heard the news, me Johnny,
Pride's gone down.
She went on down in a dead white squall,
Pride's gone down.

O-oh Prid's gone down, Me Johnny,
Pride's gone down;
Sh'll not come home to Baltimore,
Pride's gone down.

The first time I sang this in public was a a pub sing in Mystic, shortly after the event. I had trouble getting through the song because it choked me up and, apparently had the same effect on many of the others in the room. I don't drag it out often as it is too powerful.

Kendall, the melody of Ashes on the Sea sounds an awful lot like the melody of "Lorena." Is it based on that or just coincidence?