School: Cruach Ros (roll number 15532)
- Location:
- Croaghross, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Colm Ó Baoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1091, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)The weather it being calm and still,
Our anchors we did weigh;
Each man being stout and hearty,
Bound for Lough Swilly Bay.
We steered our course right to the north,
Our enemies to destroy;
But little did we think or fear,
The sea would us annoy.
On the fifth day of November,
The wind began to blow;
It blew a heavy due-west wind,
With heavy squalls of snow.
The wind it still continued,
The "Talbot" bore to sea;
When the "Saldanha " brave and all her men,
Bound for Lough Swilly Bay.
The wind it shifted to the north,
And dismal was the night;
It was from Fanad Signal Pole,
We did observe a light.
It was the hour of eight o clock,(continues on next page)
