"The Fishermen of England" from the 1921 opera "The Rebel Maid" by Montague Phillips and Gerald Dodson.

Image 1: "Pilchards" by Charles Napier Hemy, 1897
Image 2: "Making the run for home" by Charles Napier Hemy, 1915
Image 3: The zeppelin L19 (also known as the LZ 54), was a World War I airship of the of the Imperial German Navy. After its first bomb raid in the UK, the L19 crashed in the North Sea. As seen here, the crew survived the crash, but the airship is sinking. The fishermen of the fishing trawler look towards the German crew, however they refuse to rescue them. Date: 1916.

Sung by Peter Dawson

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