Ocean melodies, and seamen's companion
Subtitle: a collection of hymns and music : for the use of Bethels, chaplains of the Navy, and private devotion of mariners
By: by Phineas Stowe, Pastor of the First Baptist Bethel Church
Contributors: First Baptist Bethel Church (Boston, Mass.); Mariners' Church (Boston, Mass.); First Baptist Mariners' Chapel (New York, N.Y.); Boston Baptist Bethel Society
Edition: Twelfth edition.
Publisher: Published by Phineas Stowe, No. 8 Baldwin Place
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Copyright date: 1849
Subjects: Choruses, Sacred (Men's voices); English Hymns; Temperance; Missions; Responsive worship; Songs and music; Sailors; Revival hymns; American ballads; Religious life; Baptists; Hymns; Liturgies
Other titles: Ocean melodies.
Notes: "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in ... 1849, by Phineas Stowe ...."--t.p. verso.

Signatures : 1-13 ; wove paper.

ca. 516 hymns, choruses, occasional ballads, doxologies, etc., ca. 64 with music in close score, 2 or 3 parts [short title as text and running header, group of temperance hymns at p. 181-187?] (indicating title or name of tune, meter, occasional author or origin, composer or source, anecdote or situation)--p. [7]-207.

Includes indexes : ... of first lines [shown in running header]--p. [3]-5 ; ... of tunes--p. [6]

Collections or well-known authors drawn upon [passim] include : Winchell, Reed, Noel, Pratt, Rippon [Watts], Dwight, Taylor, Logan, Needham, Grant, Stennett, Beddome, Byrom, Grant, Griggs, Wesley, Swain, Doddridge, Cennick, Madan, Montgomery, Mason, Tans'ur. Others in added name references for 1854 edition in this online catalogue.

Special prefatory notes rendering anecdotal background or dedication for item, often of historical interest to greater Boston area--p. 46, 60, 63, 77, 136, 156, 158, 161 [x2], 162, 165, 168 [x2], 175, 176, 177, 178, 198, 199, 200, 201 [x2], 202 [x2], 203 [x2]

Items with extensive prefatory notes and titles : Tribute of Respect to Captain Daniel Tracy ...--p. 204 ; Affection's Tribute, to Lieutenant Henry Eld, Jr.--p. 205 ; Death and Burial of Reverend Adoniram Judson, D.D. at Sea--p. 206 ; Requiem on the death of a Mariner--p. 207.

Dedication to "P. Stow, Pastor of Boston Bethel Society, by Wm. Lock Brown, late Musical Director at N.Y. University"--p. 46 ; Hymns sung at the Dedication of the First Baptist Mariner's Chapel, New York, by Mr. C.H. Putnam. Tune, Sound the Loud Timbrel"--p. 63.

Burial Service at Sea [in 4 homiletic sections (the first with 7 cited scripture), followed by directions for remarks and hymns selected from 7 pages]--p. 208.

"The design ... twofold; - To counteract the demorolizing [sic] tendency of productions claiming to be poetry and music, and to furnish such as will interest the mariner and awaken the better feelings of his nature .... eject such pernicious trash from our vessels, and substitute ... remembrances of home ... to recognize God's power ...." ; "Confident ... all evangelical denominations ... rejoice at ... Melodies; but especially those who have relatives and friends on the 'great wide sea'."--Preface [verso t.p.] (revised from earlier editions; see 1854 ed. in this online catalogue)

T.p. with verse : "While mighty ocean / Rolled the wild, profound, eternal bass / In nature's anthem, and made music, / Such as pleased the ear of God."

Brown cloth covers [bubble-grain] : front and back with blind-stamped triple line border ; front with ship on main in full-sail between words of title in relief slab-serif capitals [Ocean / Melodies] -- all in gilt ; back with blind-stamped Alidine-style anchor and dolphin.

Inscription : "Mary E. Flanders. Dec. 25th 1869"--inner front endpapers recto.