 Jervis withdrew from consideration, and Everest successfully secured the appointment of his protégé Waugh as his successor.He resigned in November 1842 and his commission was formally revoked in December 1843, at which point he returned to England.In 1845 Everest was a passenger on the first voyage of the SS Great Britain, , which was the first crossing of any ocean on the world by a screw propelled steamship.