School: Doire Leathan, Grange (roll number 14843)

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1. Shipwrecks (continued)

   

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   it grieves me much to state
   There are but two survivers left the story to relate
   The Galgoram was steamship build in 1879
   In the flourishing town of Belfast
   North of the river Boyne
   She never met an accident since first she worked a screw
   Until this sad fatality by which she lost her crew
   On the 12th of March she started with a load of English coal
   Not thinking that so very soon she'd perish on the shoals
   She proceeded on her voyage that night and the next day
   But perished in a heavy fog near Dromore in Lucy bay
   A terrific snow storm was raging at the time
   Which the captain thought to weather without injury sublime
   But alas such hopes soon vanished as the crew ware washed away
   And all of them excepting two were

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   Topics

   1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
         1. shipwrecks (~384)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mairéad Ní Shamhradhain

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carrownamaddoo, Co. Sligo