THE SAILOR'S HYMN: Those in Peril on the Sea

The original video was posted just prior to November 10, 2019, in memory of all those who have died on the sea, and especially the captain and crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

I was born in sight of the sea. As a life-long Anglican and sailor, I was brought up with a hymn written by John Newton, who was born 1725 and died in 1807. He wanted to call his hymn Faith’s Review and Expectation when he wrote it in 1779. Haven’t heard of it? It is also commonly known as 'the Sailors' hymn' and is often sung to commemorate some of the world’s worst maritime disasters.
The hymn has been adopted as the anthem of both the British and American navies.
It is commonly known by the last line of the first four stanzas; Those in Peril on the Sea. PAUSE The modern version is attributed to an Anglican clergyman William Whiting born 1825 died 1878, the choirmaster of Winchester College. One legend suggests that it was written as a gift to an anxious choirboy about to set sail for America sometime after Whiting himself had survived a near shipwreck in his youth.
Winston Churchill ordered it to be sung on the ship HMS Prince of Wales while he had his fateful meeting with Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Second World War in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland.
The agreement became known as The Atlantic Charter and was a statement that set out American and British goals for the period following the end of the Second World War. The hymn was popular with the British during the Falklands/ Malvinas War of 1982. It was sung at the funerals of Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and others.
The story goes that it was the last hymn sung during the Sunday church service on 14 April 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic, just hours before she sank. In 1915, new verses were added for the age of air travel, but they lacked the stirring grandeur of the original.
The hymn tune is called 'Melita' (or Malta), the island in the Mediterranean where St Paul, a follower of Jesus of Nazareth was shipwrecked as I read in Acts of the Apostles 28:1. The music was composed by Victorian hymn composer John Bacchus Dykes. Now let’s watch this from the Cathedral Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, commonly known as Portsmouth Cathedral.

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