| 1918 |
Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd. No.838) ("Mersey" Class) for The Admiralty as WILLIAM JACKSON. |
| March 29 1918 | Completed. |
| February 03 1920 | Registered by The Admiralty as a fishing vessel at London (LO293). |
| 1921 | Sold to Pickering & Haldane's Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull. |
| June 11 1921 | London registry closed. |
| June 1921 | Renamed LORD BYNG (H288). |
| January 1929 | Sold to Bunch Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (H. G. Crampin, manager). Registered at Grimsby (GY9). |
| May 1936 | Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Renamed EVELYN ROSE (GY9). Operating out of East Coast ports. |
| 1939 | Transferred to Fleetwood. |
| May 26 - June 04 1940 | Requisitioned. At Dunkirk evacuation. Badly damaged by air attack, beached at Ramsgate. |
| June 1940 | Requisitioned for war service, repaired and converted for auxiliary patrol duties (P.No. 4.136). Subsequently converted for minesweeping duties (P.No. FY.4.136). |
| 1945 | Returned (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager). |
| August 1945 | Sold to The Cevic Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Richard Neave, manager). |
| 1948 | Returned from Iceland after springing leak. |
| 1949 | Grounded in the Western Isles and tore a hole in her bow. |
| 1954 | Grounded once more on the west coast of Kerrera. |
| December 31 1954 | Homeward (Sk. William Dawson) stranded at Ardtornish Point, Morven while in transit through the Sound of Mull in adverse weather conditions. While attempting to launch boat slipped off rocks and foundered quickly; two survivors from crew of fourteen. (Position of wreck is uncertain possibly located in130m, 400m from shore. (Original loss in approx position 56.31N 5.45W in 60-80m)). 23.7.1955: At MoT formal inquiry at Fleetwood the court found Sk. Dawson had made an error of in navigation by misinterpreting the image on the radar screen, resulting in the vessel stranding. Survivors were : W. Crawford, Mate and E. Meyer |
| Note | (William Jackson, OS (volunteer), age 28, b. Edinburgh - VICTORY (SB94)) |
| Note | 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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