LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hospital Ship Rohilla on the Rocks of Saltwick Nab October 30 1914 Both Whitby No 2 and Upgang Lifeboats Were Hauled to Saltwick
Hospital ship Rohilla on the rocks of Saltwick Nab, October 30, 1914. Both Whitby No. 2 and Upgang lifeboats were hauled to Saltwick.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rowland Hill's Painting In the Whilby Art Gallery of the Wreck of the Hospital Ship Rohilla on October 30 1914 When the Rnli Made Desperate Efforts to Rescue Patients
Rowland Hill's painting in the Whilby Art Gallery of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla on October 30, 1914, when the RNLI made desperate efforts to rescue patients and nurses..
Category: Drawings
Wreck of the Hospital Ship Rohilla, at Whitby, 30th October, 1914
Eighty-five lives were saved by the Institution's Life-boats (see p. 274.) IN Rending a collection of ,67 5s.—from herself and from Surgeon-Captain Lonias, who was senior medical officer on the Roliilla, and was one of those saved, with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launch of the Worthing Life-Boat for Testing the Use of Oil In a Rough Sea
LAUNCH OF THE WORTHING LIFE-BOAT FOR TESTING THE USE OF OIL IN A ROUGH SEA.
It will be remembered that oil was used with great effect in the service to the "Rohilla" in November, ... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mayor of Pendle Councillor Peggy Heaton
Seventy years after the hospital ship Rohilla was driven ashore off the Yorkshire coast, a party of Whitby townspeople put to sea in Whitby's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, The White Rose of Yorkshire, to lay wreaths above the wreck. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Great Rescue Recalled
ON Sunday, ist November, 1964, the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest of all life-boat services was commemorated at Whitby. This was the rescue from the hospital ship Rohilla.
The Rohilla, a vessel of 7,365 tons...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Thomas Langlands, of Whitby
The Life-boat Service has lost one of its most distinguished Coxswains by the death on 20th March last, after a painful illness, of Thomas Smith Langlands, of Whitby. He had a great career as a Life-boatman, a career extending over nearly...
Category: Obituaries
The Late Queen Alexandra
BY the death of Queen Alexandra on 20th November, 1925, the Institution, loses one of its three Royal Patrons, Queen Alexandra had been associated with the work of the Institution for forty-two years, It was in 1883, as Princess of Wales,...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. John Foster of Whitby
THERE are few in the history of the Institution who have a longer record of service than Mr. John W. Foster, of Whitby, who retired at the end of last September. He had then been secretary of the Whitby life-boat station for 44 years. He was...
Category: Articles