A painting of the bow view of the 'Iquique', concentrating on its relationship between sea, sky and ship. The artist has used a curious viewpoint showing the ship in full sail, high in the water and cut off at the top of the painting. Banks of cloud are massed as shapes of colour and a rainbow and shaft of light and rain shower are visible on the right towards the horizon. The dramatic effect has been created by the depiction of the weather and by the curious proportions and placing of the ship within the picture space. Light shines across the surface of the water.

Everett undertook his first sea journey in the sailing ship the 'Iquique', built in 1892. She went from London to Sydney via Cape Town, 17 May to October 1898, and Sydney to London, December 1898 to April 1899. Aged 21, Everett signed up on the ship as an ordinary seaman and after Cape Town a new crew was signed up and Everett became bosun. They averaged 300 miles a day and Everett worked hard at being a deep-water sailor. He also made his first shipboard drawings, some of which he later turned into etchings. He used the deck fittings with a conscious sense of composition and stylized rendition of waves. The 'Iquique' became the 'Celtic Glen' in 1907 and then the 'Riverford' in 1915, before being sold to a Canadian firm. She hit an iceberg in the South Atlantic in 1921 and became a storage hulk in Durban before being towed out to sea and sunk in 1927.