y separately published work icon The Forecastle Sailor; Or, the Guardian Frigate single work   lyric/song   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 1790... 1790 The Forecastle Sailor; Or, the Guardian Frigate
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  • A song of four stanzas on the wreck of the Guardian in 1789. Initially performed in London and published as a popular stage song about 1790, the work subsequently appeared as a broadside ballad in the nineteenth century.

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       George Goulding ,       1790 .
      Description: folio
      Note/s:
      • title continues: "written by Mr. Shapter, and sung by Mr. Darley at Vauxhall Gardens, etc."
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