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 Mayor of Pendle, Councillor Peggy Heaton, and chairman of Whitby lifeboat station, Jim Hall (below) perform the ceremony. The Rohilla ran aground in a storm on October 30, 1914, and no fewer than five pulling lifeboats and one of the earliest motor lifeboats took part in the rescue. Eighty-four lives were lost, 85 were taken off by lifeboat and 60 swam ashore. photograph by courtesy of Whitby Gazette.