[klgator]

This song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQNeGPJdcQ is little known but certainly give Edmund Fitzgerald a run for its money as one of the best disaster songs ever made.

"Cold Missouri Waters" by Cry, Cry, Cry is a true story as I later found out. Wagner Dodge is the real life hero of the song. It's fun learning about true stories behind songs. "Lord Franklin" by The Pentangle was about Sir John Franklin who headed the ill-fated attempt to find a Northwest Passage. It was featured in the first season of "The Terror." Imagine my surprise to find when touring Westminster Abbey a plaque dedicated to him.

[Jamestown1630]

That’s a fascinating story - he seems to have lit his escape fire without really knowing anything about the technique.