Everest

Official Number 48768

The Everest was a full-rigged ship built by Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank at Bransty, Whitehaven. She was launched on the 14th October 1863, and only two other ships were built after her at the Brocklebank shipyard, the Mahanada and the Bowfell. The Everest was considered to be one of the finest ships built at the Brocklebank yard, and also one of the fastest.

In a ten year career with the Brocklebank Line the Everest traded to Hong Kong, Foo Chow and Shanghai, under the command of Capts. Curwen, John Clarke and Thomas Jones. In 1868 a Liverpool newspaper reported her departure from Foo Chow in company with some of the most famous of all the China tea clippers - Ariel, Taeping, Sir Lancelot, Serica and Lahloo. In 1870 she beat another celebrated clipper, Wylo, on the passage from Foo Chow to Anjer.

The Everest, under the command of Capt. Thomas Jones, was wrecked in the China Sea on the 5th September 1873. She had left Manila on the 24th August, bound for Cork or Falmouth to receive orders, carrying a full cargo of sugar and hemp. She struck on the Danger Reef, and became a total loss. All the crew survived.
 

Sources :

1. "From Cumberland to Cape Horn" by D.Hollett.
2. "The Tea Clippers" by David R.MacGregor (Conway Maritime Press, 1972). ISBN 0 85177 059 2.