Well done, it's great to see a good song chased to pinpointable origins for once. But I still wonder about the changes wrought by the folk process and/ or broadside writers. The change of date, from October to June; the change from Plymouth to Spithead; the change from Guernsey to Ireland (mishearing of "island"?), and still that mysterious reference to the London from Liverpool.

Do we actually have a merging of two separate songs here?