School: Baile na Cille (roll number 7454)

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   “There are several different versions of the wreck of the Joseph Howe in Bere Island.”

   

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   Another man and I
   Decended this great precipice
   Which was both steep and high
   The bo'sn swung a lifeling
   Which we risked our lives to take
   As the Atlantic waves rolled furiously
   And upon the rocks did break

   
   (III)

   With the help of the lifeline
   We saved four lives that
   Who, but for our exertions
   Would have been washed away
   Another on the bowline
   Lay clinging to the boom
   To reach the shore his destiny
   But death would be his doom

   
   (IV)

   They launched out the longboat
   Not thinking of their fate
   The boat capsized
   Four men were drowned
   On that unlucky date

   
   (V)

   The four surviving mariners
   I now intend to name
   The Captain's , William Templeton
   The b'sn's was the same

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)
   2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Finbarr Murphy

   Address

   Derrycreeveen, Co. Cork