Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate
"Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate" is a naval traditional song that was sung by British Royal Navy sailors in the Napoleonic Era. Versions. First version. It is recorded in Charles Harding Firth's "Naval Songs and Ballads" (1908) in a slightly different form from the one popularized in cinema, where its opening verse has been omitted, and with quatrain stanzas instead of couplets. The first version opens with the following quatrain: The rest of the song as presented by Firth does not differ substantially from the popular version presented below, but a few  lines are inverted or have slight alterations to word order. Popular "Master and Commander" version. The version sung in the film was arranged in 1978 by Jim Mageean from his album 'Of Ships... and Men.' The song is sung in the wardroom scene of "", and is still sung aboard surface combatant ships of the Royal Navy.