Honoria H325 which went aground off Redcar 9th January 1901. Fred Brunskill advises: ”Richard Picknett, himself the past coxswain of the ‘Emma’ lifeboat was one of seven of the Picknett family to be in their coble as they tried to assist the Honoria. Tragically Richard and his his two nephews were drowned that day. The above photograph shows the Honoria and the RNLI lifeboat “Brothers”.”
Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Derick Pearson, supplemented by the Redcar Shipwrecks list, also to Fred and Sue Bishop for the updates.
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