And then before the mast, there was poor John Proby, who lost the number of his mess two days out of Callao.

We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish, it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.

The distance between China's Heihe harbor and the Soviet city of Hailanpao is only 1.5 km and the distance between Tongjiang harbor and the largest city in the Soviet Far East, Khabarovsk, is only 270 km.

Here the anthem doth commence: