| 1918 |
Built as an Admiralty Mersey WILLIAM JACKSON.
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| 1921 |
Sold to mercantile and renamed LORD BYNG. |
| Undated | Bought by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd and renamed Evelyn Rose.
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| 1939 | Requisitioned in WWII as a minesweeper at the time of the Dunkirk evacuation. |
| 1946 | Bought by Cevic Steam Fishing Co.
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| December 31 1954 | Bwrecked in the Sound of Mull with the loss of 12 men 15 yards north of Ardtornish Point under Skipper William Dawson.
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| Notes | EVELYN ROSE was no stranger to peril in her 36 year life, in December of 1948 she sprang a leak off Iceland but managed to limp home. The following year she ran aground in the Western Isles and tore a hole in her bow. A few months prior to her loss she went ashore once more on the west coast of Kerrera.
The Second World War saw her under command of Arthur Lewis who made several crossings between Ramsgate and Dunkirk during the evacuation. Once he berthed alongside a burning pier and took off 403 men. On the last trip EVELYN ROSE was so badly damaged that she had to be beached at Ramsgate.
On New Year's Eve, 1954, at about 01:00, under the command of skipper Dawson, she struck the shore to the north of Ardtornish Point due to her passing the wrong side of the light. Ardtornish Point is low lying and the cliffs a few hundred yards inshore obscured it on the radar screen. This caused the skipper to overestimate the distance to the light and she hit the rocks 15 yards to the north west of the light.
Skipper Dawson was on watch with 2 deckhands but the rest of the crew were turned in when she struck. As they rushed on deck to launch a boat the trawler's bow was pointing skyward and she slipped off the rocks and sank in 40 fathoms of water taking all but 2 of her crew with her. The survivors walked 5 miles to the nearest house to raise the alarm.
The wreck has recently been located by side scan sonar and excellent pictures have been made of the vessel lying almost vertically, bows upwards. The scan places the wreck slightly to the south and east than is depicted on the map.
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