I don't know, Steve.

BTW, Stan Hugill gives a few lines in "Shanties and Sailors' Songs" that was sent him "by Capt. C. S. Smith of Hong Kong, one-time apprentice in the barque 'Inverclyde'."

It's pretty much the same as the first stanza above, except for "the fifteenth of November" and "To sail round the north and foreign parts."

The chorus goes,

"Oh, the windy winds did blow, and the rain and blindin' snow,
And the devil of a hurricane did blow-o-oh!
And it nearly knocked the stuffin' out of the good ship 'Ragamuffin,'
As off to the tropics we did go."

Both stanza and chorus end with the exclamation "Woollamaloosh!"

"Unfortunately," Hugill writes, "Capt. Smith had forgotten the rest of this interesting bit of nonsense."

Let's not forget a second song with a "good ship Ragamuffin" in it: the well-known one taking "old Mick with his shovel and his pick/ To the shores of Botany Bay" (or "Americay"). It was known in the 1890s.