HMS Rohilla

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Reference WMO/230187

Address:

Whitby Cemetery

Larpool Lane

Whitby

YO22 4NA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: HMS Rohilla, British India line, converted from passenger liner to hospital ship was on her way from Scapa Flow after training to Dunkirk to pick up wounded soldiers, carrying a crew & medical staff of 229 people. A tremendous storm with fierce north-easterly gale drove the ship inshore on to the Whitby scaur, wrecking it at Saltwick. A tremendous rescue progressed for a number of days to try and save the crew, however 92 people were lost. The Rohilla plot, a trench grave with pillar, contains the graves of 33 of the victims (including 19 unidentified men) and one Coast Guard killed in the German raid. See http://www.eskside.co.uk/ss_rohilla/whitby_monument.htm for more details of the monument In 1917 a monument was erected at Whitby by the British India Steam Navigation Company, commemorating all those who lost their lives in the tragedy The ship's flag was presented to St Andrew's Church, Tiptoe, Hampshire by 2nd officer Morgan (WMO 295815)
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THIS MONUMENT/ WAS ERECTED BY THE BRITISH INDIA / STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD./ OWNERS OF THE HOSPITAL SHIP S.S./ ROHILLA, TO THE MEMORY OF/ 31 OFFICERS AND MEN WHO WERE/ DROWNED IN THE WRECK OF THAT VESSEL/ OFF WHITBY, OCTOBER 30TH 1914/ THIRTY THREE BODIES RECOVERED/ FROM THE WRECK ARE BURIED HERE/ THE NAMES OF THE FOURTEEN OF THOSE/ IDENTIFIED ARE AS FOLLOW:/ (NAMES)/ "I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH/ AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA"

See http://www.eskside.co.uk/ss_rohilla/whitby_monument.htm for list of names

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