“The Indian Chief”
Description
Fragment: "My curse upon the timber with the wood in which it grew, That built the Indian Chief to drown Tom Cannon and his crew"
Notes
Before January 1, 1846 the _Indian Chief_ was lost at Blackwater Bank, Wexford (source: Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 61)
Ballads of "The Wreck of the Indian Chief," by Charles Steer and by Sir William Topaz McGonagall, are about a different wreck and rescue (January 8, 1881 in the English channel). - BS
References
- Ranson, p. 126, "The Indian Chief" (1 text)
- BI, Ran126