Add to ORKGYoung widow relates story of shipwreck in which, after saving her and her baby, her husband drowns trying to rescue his aged father.Laws, ABBB, K7; Mercer: Greenleaf, p. 208; Peacock, p. 486
Man disapproves of his daughter's love for a fisherman and plans to kill him. The mother warns her d...
A girl goes to sea to find her sailor boy. She describes him to a ship's captain who tells her that ...
Sailor courts girl. He goes to sea and is drowned. She finds the body on the beach and dies. They ar...
Girl laments her husband of six years who was pressed to go to sea and drowned.Mercer, p. 115 ("Earl...
Father's oppostion forces lovers to leave and die in shipwreck.Laws M8, ABBB, '83; Mercer: Leach, 58...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
Girl loves fishsails to America. Ship, "The Regency", is wrecked and Riley drowns. The girl's body i...
Man leads woman astray and kills her; when he is at sea her ghost (and their baby's ghost) haunts th...
Riley forced to go to America with money from girl's mother. He returns for her but both die in ship...
A merchant vessel is threatened by pirates. The captain entices the hero to scuttle (sp?) the pirate...
Father threatens to kill girl's boyfriend so mother gives her one hundred pounds with which to send ...
The narrator sees a widow weeping. He tries to comfort her but to no avail. Her husband, Henry, volu...
The narrator was sent to jail for attempting to elope with Mary Neal. While he was out on bail, they...
Young man kills his wife and child then goes to sea. She haunts the ship and eventually takes her re...
The trip to Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands, ended in tragedy. Shelley Tyre and David Swain, ...
Man disapproves of his daughter's love for a fisherman and plans to kill him. The mother warns her d...
A girl goes to sea to find her sailor boy. She describes him to a ship's captain who tells her that ...
Sailor courts girl. He goes to sea and is drowned. She finds the body on the beach and dies. They ar...
Girl laments her husband of six years who was pressed to go to sea and drowned.Mercer, p. 115 ("Earl...
Father's oppostion forces lovers to leave and die in shipwreck.Laws M8, ABBB, '83; Mercer: Leach, 58...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
Girl loves fishsails to America. Ship, "The Regency", is wrecked and Riley drowns. The girl's body i...
Man leads woman astray and kills her; when he is at sea her ghost (and their baby's ghost) haunts th...
Riley forced to go to America with money from girl's mother. He returns for her but both die in ship...
A merchant vessel is threatened by pirates. The captain entices the hero to scuttle (sp?) the pirate...
Father threatens to kill girl's boyfriend so mother gives her one hundred pounds with which to send ...
The narrator sees a widow weeping. He tries to comfort her but to no avail. Her husband, Henry, volu...
The narrator was sent to jail for attempting to elope with Mary Neal. While he was out on bail, they...
Young man kills his wife and child then goes to sea. She haunts the ship and eventually takes her re...
The trip to Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands, ended in tragedy. Shelley Tyre and David Swain, ...
Man disapproves of his daughter's love for a fisherman and plans to kill him. The mother warns her d...
A girl goes to sea to find her sailor boy. She describes him to a ship's captain who tells her that ...
Sailor courts girl. He goes to sea and is drowned. She finds the body on the beach and dies. They ar...