"Hail, Queen of Heaven, the Ocean Star" is a Marian hymn written by Father John Lingard (1771–1851), a Catholic priest and historian who, through the works of William Cobbett, helped to smooth the passage of the Catholic Emancipation Act in England.
This melody was published in 1851 by Henri Frederick Hemy in his "Easy Hymn Tunes for Catholic Schools".
[3] J. Vincent Higginson described it as "one of the oldest English vernacular hymns commonly found in Catholic hymnals.
[4] This motif of a ship can also be found in the first stanza of Mother Dear, O Pray For Me,[7] as well as in Matthew 8:22-34, where Christ calmed the storm for his apostles who were travelling by boat, and walked on the water with St Peter.
Peter Kreeft sees her as one of the clearest reflections of Roman Catholic Marian devotion in Tolkien's work.