found this little tidbit on a facebook site on Antarctic Exploration..
the ditty is a nice little parlor piece

1875: BIRTH OF PLUMLEY
Frank Plumley, Royal Navy stoker with Scott’s Discovery expedition, was born in Clevedon, Somerset, on 5 May, 1875. He joined the Antarctic expedition at Simon’s Town, Cape Colony, from HMS Gibraltar.
At the midwinter concert at the Royal Terror Theatre held on 25 June, 1902, the Royal Navy seamen Frank Wild and Frank Plumley sang the song ‘Larboard Watch’ (larboard was a previous name for the port side of a ship). The song was a duet written by Thomas Williams (d. 1864) and published in 1859.
Listen to a recording of Frank C. Stanley & Byron G. Harlan performing the song with orchestra here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ln38qPzGXQ
Plumley on skis: SPRI
The Press (Christchurch, NZ), 28 March, 1903.
‘Obituary’, The Polar Record Vol. 15, No. 99 (1971), p. 937.
A. Savours (ed.), Edward Wilson: Diary of the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic Regions (London, 1975), p. 402.
C. R. Markham, Antarctic Obsession: A Personal Narrative of the Origins of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 (Harleston, 1986), p. 96.
R. Fiennes, Captain Scott (London, 2004), p. 438.