She was in 1952 the largest built ship of her type and class and also the most expensive ever built at the Kingston Ontario Shipyard. She was built for the Marathon Corp a pulp & papers company to transport pulp wood to the mills. She was named after the chairman of the board one Mr. D. C. Everest and painted in her green & white livery she was a sight to be seen on the lakes, mostly the upper lakes. Economics changed and Marathon faded and the good vessel was up for sale. She next appeared under the house flag of American Can and was now painted in a blue & white livery, traveling about the lower lakes more now doing her owners bidding. But yet again economics dictated terms and the good vessel was sold again but now to s scrap dealer. She sat in the Toronto turning basin for a year or two along with several other vessels slated for scrap. In 1986 I came across her sitting outboard of a tanker. I talked to the owner and gained access as her " keeper " living on her for near 3 years. In that tyme I brought Navy League Cadets on board and we used her for training purposes, teaching navigation, rope work, ship board duties etc. We created and planned voyages tossing in the many and varied conditions that the lakes could and can through at a vessel. The Cadets enjoyed, learned a great deal and I believe grew in the process. For the last time she was again sold and this time to a tug boat company who employed her as a " lighter vessel " one used to off load cargo from other ships for a variety of reasons. Again she served her owners well and for a few good years. But alas as all else in this life does come to an end so did this good vessel, and again it was economics that turned the tied. She was sold in 2009 and towed overseas to meet the scrappers torch thus ending over a 50 year career on the lakes. But the story does not end there as my son was conceived aboard her in the Captains cabin one dark and stormy night and when he was born he was given the name of the good ship in the first three names of his full name. So gone but not forgotten is the good ship Everest.......thanks for the peek