Quick observation;`
Although the song given in The Journal is entitled 'The Ripest of Apples' (referred to elsewhere as ('Twenty-Eighteen) and has been given the Roud number (542) to suit that song, it apppears to be a version of 'Waly, Waly' with a chorus from 'Ripest' tacked on.
In the Journal it is included in a number of examples from a paper on Sailor Songs read before The Folk Song Society on Nov. 23rd 1899, by Frank Kidson, though there is no reference to what it was illustrating as far as I can see.
Jim Carroll