Date/Time
Date(s) - 23/07/2014 - 31/08/2014
12:00 am
Location
Pannett Art Gallery
Categories
The exhibition, commissioned by Cromer RNLI with Arts Council Funding, commemorates six heroic lifeboat rescues in the Great War which took place around the UK. The displays are interactive and family friendly.and include a stained glass puzzle, film, a tapestry and a giant floor jigsaw.
The latter, created by 45 members of Whitby Art Society is in the form of a 4 metre mosaic of 64 inages telling the story of the rescue of survivors from the Hospital Ship Rohilla (see this page on this site). The ship was travelling to Dunkirk on an errand of mercy to rescue wounded soldiers of the BEF. In wartime blackout conditions and in the teeth of a great storm , the ship hit the treacherous rocks of the Whitby Coast.
The storm was so fierce and the sea, driven by an onshore gale, so tremendous in power, that even though the ship was close to the shore, it took 6 lifeboats from Teesmouth to Scarborough and three days, to complete the rescue of 184 nursing staff, orderlies and crew.
The exhibition will travel the country until 1919.
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