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The Yarmouth Castle Disaster
🕑 Added 2021-04-14 11:37:43 +0000 UTCI've covered a few maritime disasters now, including at least one other ship consumed by fire. The Yarmouth Castle Disaster is the only one so far, though, that has its own song. Gordon Lightfoot wrote and recorded The Ballad of Yarmouth Castle in 1969, four years after the fire.
Here's the song in full if you'd like to give it a listen. And here's a little snippet of the lyrics:
"Deep within the Yarmouth Castle
The fire begins to glow
It leaps into the hallways
And climbs and twists and grows
And the paint she wore to keep her young
Oh Lord, how well it burns"
Lightfoot was an avid sailor as well as a musician, and so this isn't the only song about the sinking of a ship that he ever recorded. He also wrote Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald about the sinking of SS Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. Hopefully, I'll be able to cover that disaster in a future episode!
Comments
Embiss
I'd love to see something on the Edmund Fitzgerald!
Fascinating Horror
A surprising number of disasters, I've found, have had songs written about them. I'm considering doing a video just about incidents that have been immortalised in song!
Aria
Wow! They even wrote a song!?
