Wreck of the schooner "Samuel Crawford" : A new poem /
McGonagall, William.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1901?]
In two columns with a coat of arms above the title.
In verse.
'Composed, May 1901'.
At the top of the sheet in McGonagall's hand - 'Sir Wm. Topaz McGonagall. Poet'.
Printed beneath the title are two letters of acknowledgement for receipt of poems from McGonagall, one from Francis Knollys on behalf of the King, the other from Lord Wolseley.
First lines read: 'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, / Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" will long remember, / She was bound to Baltimore with a cargo of pine lumber; / But, alas! the crew suffered greatly from cold and hunger.
English poetry
Shipwrecks