A portrait of the three-masted 'Iquique', starboard quarter-view. The ship has been carefully observed and Everett concentrates on the shapes of the sails. The ship appears to be exaggerated in scale and the three masts dominate the skyline. The sea is painted as a rhythmic pattern with a wave breaking on the left showing the curved pattern of the crests of the waves as they break. The wake forms a honeycomb effect and the waves are carefully outlined with blue. The sky is flatly painted and the ship appears against a golden sky. Made after his return from the voyage.

His first sea journey was 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. Signed 'John Everett' bottom right.