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Heart of Oak" is the official march of the Royal Navy. It is also the official march of several Commonwealth navies, including the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy. It was the official march of the Royal Australian Navy, but has now been replaced by the new march, "Royal Australian Navy". [1]
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.
It was among the songs sung on 9 August 1941 [13] at a church service aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales attended by Winston Churchill (who requested it be sung) and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the conference creating the Atlantic Charter. [14] It was spoken in the Congressional Record the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. [15]
"Rule, Britannia!" is a British patriotic song, originating from the 1740 poem "Rule, Britannia" by James Thomson [1] and set to music by Thomas Arne in the same year. [2] It is most strongly associated with the Royal Navy, but is also used by the British Army. [3]
The song was recorded by The Young Tradition, on their 1967 EP also titled Chicken on a Raft. One of Tawney's other most popular original songs is "The Grey Funnel Line," also written about the Royal Navy. 'The Grey Funnel Line' was a nickname among Navy sailors for the Royal Navy, as if it were the same as any other shipping line.
James E. Buttersworth's The Clipper Ship Flying Cloud off the Needles, Isle of Wight (1859–60) "Spanish Ladies" (Roud 687) is a traditional British naval song, typically describing a voyage from Spain to the Downs from the viewpoint of ratings of the Royal Navy. [1]
Royal Army Chaplains' Department – Prince of Denmark's March (Trumpet Voluntary) Royal Logistic Corps – On Parade (Quick); Lion, Sword and Crown (Slow) Royal Army Medical Service – Here's a Health unto His Majesty; Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – Lilliburlero/Auprès de ma blonde (Quick); Duchess of Kent (Slow) [3]
The Sailor's Hornpipe (also known as The College Hornpipe and Jack's the Lad [1]) is a traditional hornpipe melody and linked dance with origins in the Royal Navy. [ 2 ] History