It was written in 1968 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a boat owned by Crosby, who composed the music, while Kantner and Stills wrote most of the lyrics.
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The song was released the same year by Kantner's band Jefferson Airplane, on the album Volunteers.
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Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the APA began to replace its wooden ships with iron-hulled vessels by purchasing a number of ships built by Harland & Wolff Co. for James P. Corry and Co.'s Star Line.
The Fram and the Endurance, made famous in the polar expeditions of Amundsen and Shackleton, were the two strongest wooden ships ever constructed and were sheathed in greenheart to prevent them from being crushed by ice.