"Red Sails In The Sunset" was published in 1935, and thus saith the Great Wiki:

The song was inspired by the "red sails" of Kitty of Coleraine, a yacht Kennedy often saw off the northern coast of Ireland and by his adopted town Portstewart, a seaside resort in County Londonderry.

Some of the earliest versions were recorded by Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and his Orchestra on September 18, 1935 and Guy Lombardo, on October 11, 1935. This recording was issued by Decca Records as catalog number 585.

As a teenager in the '60s, I used to lark around with the gang in Dalton Square in Lancaster, and look at the then, still boarded-up house where Dr. Buck Ruxton cut up his wife and maid. The hoodoo seems to have gone from it now and it's back in use again.