Everard ships from Liverpool

[Jack smith]

F.T.Everard and Sons of Greenhythe.
They have a very good Facebook account with lots of photos of their ships and crew. I had a brief look but could see nothing to identify the photo above. Interesting and well worth a look though.

I was a cadet on the Worcester at Greenhithe in 1970 and again in 1971. There were usually 3 or 4 Fred’s at the home port at a time. We were all glad we didn’t have to sail on them. Sure they were OK as they had to be in class but they didn’t look safe. During my 12 year career worldwide and coastal I never saw another Fred. The Barman at the Brown Bear was an Everard cook. Have to say his Sunday lunch was a hell of an improvement on the Worcester galley.

[Ivan Cloherty]

I was a cadet on the Worcester at Greenhithe in 1970 and again in 1971. There were usually 3 or 4 Fred’s at the home port at a time. We were all glad we didn’t have to sail on them. Sure they were OK as they had to be in class but they didn’t look safe. During my 12 year career worldwide and coastal I never saw another Fred. .

As a young cadet, what made you think they looked unsafe, their smallness. Funny how you never saw another Fred in your period at sea 70/82 they had nearly 100 vessels plying the coast and further afield. In the 50's I joined one of their yellow-perils after serving my time in a liner company, I learnt more about navigation, seamanship and ship handling than I'd learned in nearly four years in the liner company, and I'd already had a head start before joining the LC, having sailed on Arctic trawlers prior to joining the LC.(starting aged 13) My experience of Fred's bore no resemblance to the horror stories I'd heard about them, the yellow peril was well found, even though we had to pay for our own food, we fed well and the cook liked the galley equipment, and slinging dominoes around (regardless of rank) and heaving beams up and down the tracks kept us all fit and also never experienced any problem getting stores or paint from Greenhithe or elsewhere, accommodation was okay too. Alas no radar but a good Decca Navigator and of course 8 knots on a good day.

[Ralph Harper]

Hi Rob you were asking where the ships your dad was on went to,well the majority of Everards was home trade,but as i was saying the one i was on the ss seniority went to Germany Denmark Sweden Norway the fiords & all the Baltic,we also once went through the Kiel Canal
Hope this helps
Ralph.

[John Le Bretton]

HI yes I was on the Clarity one of the yellow pearls Everhard's during the '60s we sailed UK and continent down to Spain Wales and Ireland that was as far as we went not sure where the picture that you sent is.

[Ken Norton]

Hello John, Hope you are keeping well. A few years since I sailed with you. Always remember cleaning the engine room bilges with all the thick black gunk as was afraid to sail her the way she was. Nice to get back in touch.

[Ken Norton]

I sailed on the Fred T Everard early '60s. She was the company flagship I believe also a Yellow Peril. Used to home trade /Baltic. Went aground in a snowstorm 1965 off Whitby. All hands taken off by Lifeboat including the "old man". Total write off broke up on the rocks a few days later.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Saw plenty of Everard's ships when I was on the East Coast, one i remember hit a flat Iron coming out of London, she didn't even know she had hit it, as they were so low in the water and there was a bit of weather, she went down with some losses I think she was carrying some cadets, the only way they found out which ship had hit her was when they went examined the bow of the Everard ship and saw the mess her bow was in.
Des
I think the picture might have been taken in Malta.

[Jack smith]

Don't visit the site very often and just saw Ivan's reply. I guess it was size (it doesn't matter right?). Think we were fed a lot of baloney about big ship's etc. Later on in my career I was chief officer on Souter's fleet of chem carriers.(Solvent Discoverer, Explorer etc). Great ships but a few times crossing the German Bight in winter wished they were bigger.

[Trader]

The photo looks like it could be Lipari in the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily. Everards sometimes loaded pumice stone there.

[Red Lead Ted]

Should I see a ships pic, Lads ?????????????.