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Record Number 601821
Resource Identifier floh26072006007
Vessel Name Evelyn Rose
Fishing Number GY9
Type of Vessel ST
Official Number 143857
Previous Names Lord Byng; William Jackson
Other Fishing Numbers LO293
Year Constructed 1918
Constructed By Cochrane & Sons Ltd
Constructed At Selby
Gross Tons 327
Length 138.5 ft
Beam 23.7 ft
Depth 12.8 ft
Construction Notes Yard No. 838
Owner / Manager Cevic Steam Fishing Co
Previous Owners Boston DSF
Date Sunk Wrecked 31/12/1954
Place Sunk Sound of Mull
Casualties F Thornton, C P Chard, A McDermott, K Atkins, W, Dawson, L J Evans, C R Holdon, R Leadbetter, R W E Barlow, J Salthouse
For Sale Yes
Download Available Yes
General Notes
Built as the Admiralty 'Mersey' class trawler WILLIAM JACKSON.
Renamed LORD BYNG.
Then to Boston Deep Sea Fishing as EVELYN ROSE (GY9).
June 1940 Requisitioned by the Royal Navy. The Evelyn Rose was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk. She made a number of crossings to France and on one occasion she was able to rescue 403 men from a burning pier. On her return trip she was so badly damaged that she had to be run onto the beach at Ramsgate.
1945 Returned to owners.
1946 Sold to Cevic Steam Fishing Co Ltd.
31/12/1954 The Evelyn Rose was travelling home and grounded on rocks at Ardtornish Point in the Sound of Mull. She then slipped into deep water and sank within minutes about 100 yards from shore. 12 crewman were lost and 2 were saved. When they got ashore, the two survivors walked 5 miles in bare feet through bogland and it took them 4 hours to reach the nearest village. Two bodies were later recovered from the beach.
The skipper's brother, George Dawson was a deckhand on the Wyre Nab, which was following the Evelyn Rose at the time. The Wyre Nab avoided the same fate as the Evelyn Rose because she had been forced to take a different route after the boats radar had broken. It was deemed safer for them to sail out past Oban instead.
The site of the wreck of the Evelyn Rose was discovered in 2004. Underwater scans showed a scar on the seabed and this indicated that the vessel slid as she went down. Divers now want to go down to inspect the wreck.

Fleetwood Weekly News
Date : 25/05/200
Page : 4
Title : "Diving Team Pledge to ond 50 year old trawler wreck."

Article Summary:
A. Evelyn Rose- went down off Isle of Mull in 130 metres of water. 12 of 14 crew were lost.
B. Divers want to go down and inspect the wreck.
C. The site of the wreck was discovered in 2004.
D. Underwater scans show a scar on the seabed showing how the vessel slid as she went down.
E. Evelyn Rose launched in 1918 and she was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk. Made a number of crossings to France and once took 403 men off a burning pier.
F. Was eventually so badly damaged she had to be run onto the beach at Ramsgate.

Newspaper: Fleetwood Weekly News ( Seascape)
Date: 16/02/2005
Page: 2
Title: "Getting to the bottom of this trawler's fate".
Article Summary:
A. Evelyn Rose - Was travelling home through the Sound of Mull in Western Scotland- believed to have struck rocks at Ardtonish Point Light.
B. Skipper- William "Jerry" Dawson.
C. Evelyn Rose launched 1918, 327 tonnes.
D. Survivors-Ernest Mayer and William Crawford.