Mike wrote this years ago about how sailors celebrated Christmas while onboard their ship many miles from home... it came to him in a dream without a tune and by that afternoon he had both the tune and s slightly rewritten song
this link is to the website that Judy Barrow and Charley Noble set up for him and has mp3 and pdf of lyrics

https://www.mikekennedysongs.com/lyrics/christmas_at_sea.htm