Whitby is an ancient coastal town in north yorkshire built around the mouth of the river esk and today it is a popular holiday resort attracting visitors wanting to sample the beach fish and chips the steam railway festivals coastal and moorland walks and the towns regattas in whitby between the wars this significant but . The raid on scarborough hartlepool and whitby on 16 december 1914 was an attack by the imperial german navy on the british ports of scarborough hartlepool west hartlepool and whitbythe attack resulted in 592 casualties many of them civilians of whom 137 died the attack caused public outrage towards the german navy for the attack and against the royal navy for its failure to prevent . Raid on scarborough hartlepool and whitby part of the first world war 250px british propaganda poster following the raid date 16 december 1914 location scarborough hartlepool west hartlepool and whitby england result german victory belligerents united kingdom german empire commanders. A history of whitby and streoneshalh abbey with a statistical survey of the vicinity to the distance of twenty five miles by young george 1777 1848 book digitized by google from the library of the new york public library and uploaded to the internet archive by user tpb. The whitby hotel tim and kit kemp founders of firmdale hotels have now opened the whitby their second new york hotel situated in the heart of upper midtown manhattan on west 56th street at 5th avenue the whitby hotel is a celebration of contemporary art and design