Harp
I'll Lock Up
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While not about tramp steamers, Richard McKenna's "The Sand Pebbles" (1962) is about sailors on a small craft on the Yangtze in 1926, at the height of the Warlord years. They're Navy, not merchant sailors, but they're the guys who made it safe (sort of) for the foreign devils to bring their vessels to Chinese waters.... Everyone should read it.
Marcus Goodrich produced an exceptional singular yarn, Delilah, an ancient destroyer assigned pre WWI Sulu Sea patrol; which surprisingly never made it to film.