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1. Songs handed down from old times
Toia Mai (Ancient) 
hauling-ashore chant
Tua Tua Koi Rangi Nui (c.1400) 
riding out a storm off the coast of Sth Westland
Te Ngahuru's Lament for His Canoe (c.1800)
wrecked on rocks at Whangmata
Davy Lowston (1815) 
Sealers marooned in Fiordland
Blood Red Roses (1820s)
Old whaling shanty
Come All You Tonguers (1830s)
Old shore-whaling shanty
Across The Line (1850s)
Memories of voyages right round the world
John Smith A. B. (1860s)
fell from the mainmast in a gale and drowned
Soon May The Wellerman Come (1860s)
An epic duel between shore-whaler and whale.
Tofa My Feleni (1889)
A hurricane destroyed both the German
and American fleets in Apia Harbour.
2. Recent songs about about old times
Ko'rareka
"You're a hell-hole, say the missionaries"
I Only Spoke Portuguese
Bill Worsfold's ancestor jumped ship.
The Philomena D 
A 2-year-long whaling cruise to New Zealand
Mahurangi Regatta
Written for the centenary of the regatta 
The Orpheus 
It was wrecked on the Manukau bar.
A Sixty-Five Ton Hooker
A dark night, with the wind forcing us shorewards
Righting the Ronga
An accident-prone coastal cargo schooner
Crossing the Kaipara Bar
"The Sailors Graveyard."
Auckland to the Bluff 
In shanty style. Bemoaning a rough voyage
The Hurricane Rider 
West-Coast-coal-fired ship was only one to escape.
3. Recent songs about recent experiences
Send the Boats Away (1980s)
Protest boats to the French nuclear tests
Ghost Gulls Of Picton (1980s)
Traveling at night on the inter-island ferry
The Rena (2011)
Container ship wrecked off Tauranga harbour
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