THE SHIP EVEREST.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8359, 19 December 1892, Page 6

THE SHIP EVEREST.

The ill luck which brought the ship Everest to Lyfctolton last December, and stack to her so persistently during the six mouths she remained here, seems to have still clung to her during her voyage to Liverpool. A letter received ia Lytteltou lust week states that the vessel nearly came to grief on July 10th. She was running with a strong breeze in lat. 55.50 S.>uth, long. 12.14 W., and just before daybreak she ran into field ice, aud was with, considerable difficulty prevented from running into an iceberg. On tho following .Sunday, July 17th. when running before a very heavy gale in lat. 57.30.~5. long. 79.10 W., she was pooped by a sea, which carried away the wheel, wheel chains, and after companion with binnacle attached, and filled the deck half full of water. The chief ofiicar, Mr Sydney Morgan, who shipped at Lyttelton, was washed along the deck and over the side, but managed to get hold of tho royal backstays and pull himself inboard aga : u. The ship boached tc and filled herself fore and aft. When tho water cleared away it was found that one man had baen killed outright by being struck on the head, and five others were seriously injured. The ship lost her foresail and fore lower topsail. A month later they passed a water-logged vessel named the lannie Wolston, which was floating about right in the trjvek of vessels. Ou September 22ud the Everest fell in with another gale, which, blow away the main aud fore lower topsails. From this time sho experienced fairly good weather till her arrival at Liverpool.