The Tall Ships Races
Tall Ships Race from Torbay.
The English Riviera - Torbay, Torquary
. Start of the tall ship race 2006 in Torquay, Torbay / 1:56m.

. The Star of India setting sails. / 5:35m

SHIP of The LINE

. USS Constitution - slide show tour / 4:59m
. USS Constitution - slide show with plans and statistics / 4:03m

. HMS Surprise and the Star of India / 2:25m

. Ship of the Line - Cannon Fire / 4:13m
. HMS Victory Fires Full Broadside -
0.56s Battle of Trafalgar / history.

SEA CHANTEYS

Stan Rogers
Stan Rogers was Canada's most famous folk singer and justly deserved
the attribution of 'legendary' when he tragically died at the age of 33.
. . Barrett's Privateers -
written by Stan Rogers. Stunning performance filmed in the kitchen
- with the band seated arond a wooden table. / 2:37m
. . Northwest Passage - A montage from
CBC's The National featuring an incomplete version of 'Northwest Passage' / 2:30m
. . Bluenose schooner - racing against her Gloucester rival,
the Gertrude L. Thibault, set to Stan Roger's inspiring music and voice / 3:42m

. . Away Santiago -
with slide show of galleons .. female voices / 3:00m.
. . ** Haul Away Joe No.1 - A Spellbinding performance of this
classic sea chantey. Turn Volume to HIGH. Video is a photo slide show of the 19thc American Navy: / 1:58m

. . The Immortal Sandy Denny / A Sea Song and Other Songs - 8:40m
. . Bob Neuwirth - Haul on the Bowline - 1:30m
. . ** Haul Away Joe No.2 -
The Clancy Brothers and
Tommy Makem are in their finest form in this 1984 video / 2:05m
. . Haul Away for Rosie -
set to animation of a battle between ship of the line / 2:22m

. . Paddy Lay Back -
Excellent but no background information is available / 3:37m
. . What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor ? 1 -
Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in live concert;
Video image is a vintage, b&w band photo / 3:09m
. . What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor ? 2 -
Pirates of the Caribbean / 2:43m
. . BLOOD RED ROSES - STING -
FABULOUS, 100% FABULOUS!!
Image is Herbert James Draper: The Water Nymph, c. 1900. 2:43m
. . Jack Sparrow and Hog Eye Man -
Pirates of the Caribbean / good 'new' chantey / 2:45m

New England Whaling / Whaling Songs
* New October 25, 2008

* . . History of Nantucket Whaling - fr the Nantucket Historical Association / 6:10m
* . . The Charles W. Morgan, - Built in 1841 and now dockside at Mystic Seaport,
Connecticut, the CWM is the last wooden hulled whale ship afloat in the USA. / 6:42m

. . Go to Sea Once More - ballad of a sailor doomed to forever
go to sea on whaling voyages. Good historical photos and prints slide show / 4:52m
. . The Norfolk Whalers - sung by Harry Robertson.
Video is a fine historical whaling print. / 4:31m