Heard this sung by Dave Brady [Bradley] many years ago

Vinyl of Louis Killen ~ Ballads and Broadsides 1964/65 notes by Angela Carter (?) mentions that the ballad makers were were originally inspired by a pamphlet ~ The Dying Declaration of Nicholas Fernandez~ on the eve of his execution in 1829 (for piracy) published as a temperance tract!

There is she states[Angela] no record of a ship called the Flying Cloud

Ray