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"Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate" is a naval traditional song that was sung by British Royal Navy sailors in the Napoleonic Era.
"Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate" is a naval traditional song that was sung by British Royal Navy sailors in the Napoleonic Era.
The song was written by Richard Creagh Saunders (1809-1886), who enlisted in the navy as a Schoolmaster on the 11th of July, 1839. [1] It was 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. [2]
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.
The version sung in the film was arranged in 1978 by Jim Mageean [3] from his album 'Of Ships... and Men.' [4] The song is sung in the wardroom scene of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World , and is still sung aboard surface combatant ships of the Royal Navy.
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