A sketch of a seascape made from the 'Birkdale'. In this loosely worked sketch Everett has used broad brush strokes and blocks of colour to convey the scene. In the foreground thick impasto paint has been applied in broad sweeps and the sea has been painted with a palette of green, grey, lilac and white. The sky has a horizontal band of light lilac on the horizon and is streaked a strong yellow above, to indicate the setting sun. On the left of the image the sky has a pattern of strong coloured shapes to indicate clouds. They move diagonally across the picture plane from left to right and spread out across the sky. The sketch shows Everett experimenting with form and colour to convey the scene.

Everett joined the barque, 'Birkdale', and sailed from Bristol to Sabine Pass, Texas, April to June 1920. It was his first journey after World War I. The 'Birkdale' was due to take sulphur from Texas to the Cape, but when she arrived in Texas the ship was re-chartered to Australia and so Everett reluctantly left her and came home by steamer. The 'Birkdale', built in 1892, was the last barque to fly the red ensign and spent nearly all her working life in the Chilean nitrate trade. For a short time after World War I she switched to taking sulphur from Texas to the Cape. The 'Birkdale' went back to the nitrate trade and was wrecked on the Chilean coast after catching fire in 1927.

The sketch is confusingly inscribed both 'Birkdale' and 'Le Croisic', and so it is possible that Everett was adding to an earlier sketch when he visited France in 1921.