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The Amphitrite was the name of a Tyne coal carrying keelboat. The song, written by Robert Gilchrist tells of the ship and its crew.. The comments made in the 1891 edition of Allan’s Tyneside Songs (marked July 30, 1829 E G), is “The following production records some of the ludicrous mistakes made by the intrepid navigators of the coal keels.
On 12 January 1808 Amphitrite, Colburn, master, was driven onshore at Ryde, but was gotten off without damage. [3] On 21 October 1808 as Amphitrite was sailing from Halifax to Bedec, New Brunswick, and London, she was driven on shore near Pictou, Nova Scotia. She was gotten off on 6 November, but then grounded again near Bedec.
Amphitrite on 1936 Australian stamp commemorating completion of submarine telephone cable to Tasmania. Amphitrite is the name of a genus of the worm family Terebellidae. In poetry, Amphitrite's name is often used for the sea, as a synonym of Thalassa. Seven ships of the Royal Navy were named HMS Amphitrite
While older music with notation exists (e.g. the Hurrian songs or the Delphic Hymns), all of it is in fragments; the Seikilos epitaph is unique in that it is a complete, though short, composition. Based on its structure and language, the artifact is generally understood to have been an epitaph (a tombstone inscription) created by a man named ...
"Ship to Wreck" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine from their third studio album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015). It was released on 9 April 2015 as the album's second single.
The title song of the 1971 album Nantucket Sleighride by American rock band Mountain is titled in full "Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)". While there is no evidence that the song is specifically about Coffin or the ship Essex (and the lyrics are in parts obscure in meaning), it is written from the point of view of a sailor on a ship undertaking a "three-year tour... on a search for the ...
No, it’s not about the video game. “Fortnight,” the first single from Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” is a duet with Post Malone.. Before we delve into the lyrics, let ...
Gene Austin, an early crooner, was the first to record the song in 1924, under the title "The C. & O. Wreck", and several other versions were recorded in the next few years under different titles. On February 15, 1929, The Carter Family recorded the song as "Engine One-Forty-Three" with A.P. Carter credited as songwriter. The Carters' release ...