This airs on CW network in the U.S. every Thanksgiving morning, after March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934).
Arthur Housman appeared with Laurel and Hardy in several films, but was never given a name. He was always referred to as a drunk, his most well known character.
The studio sets used for the scenes on shipboard apparently are the same that were used for the Hal Roach Our Gang short, Shiver My Timbers (1931). For example, both have a rectangular 'hole' in the deck through which sailors (in both shorts) are thrown to the hold below; the crew quarters room is the same shape (though the windows are different); and the bunk beds in the crew quarters have 'scoop'-cut sideboards.
Laurel and Hardy suffer another grotesque end at the hands of Walter Long, as they did in Going Bye-Bye! (1934) also in 1934.