Here's one of the few findable, early chantey references that haven't been posted yet:

"Sunday Chronicle" [San Francisco] (Jan. 23, 1881), p.:

"For the first six weeks all the 'Shanti songs' [sic] known on the sea had been sung. Regularly at each pumping exercise we had 'Santy Anna,' 'Bully in the Alley,' 'Mirama Lee,' 'Storm Along John,' and other operatic maritime gems, some of which might have a place in our modern operas of the Pinafore school. There's a good deal of rough melody when these airs are rolled out by twenty or thorty strong lungs to the accompaniment of a windlass' clank and the wild, shrill sweep of the wind in the rigging above."

I can't guess at "Mirama Lee." (Surely it wasn't "The Spanish Nobilio," noted for his damaged "miralto maree," or even a version of "The Loss of the Ramillies.")