East Cleveland Image Archive

Afrikander grounded at Redcar. Fred Brunskill advises: ”The large steamship ’Africander’ came ashore January 1892. Local folk were employed to lighten her load (hence the horses and carts)and she was refloated within a week.”

Thanks to Derick Pearson and Fred Brunskill for updates.

Birhold – a sailing ship – grounded at Redcar 1899.

Thanks to Derick Pearson for the update.

Honoria H325 which went aground off Redcar 9th January 1901. Fred Brunskill advises: ”Richard, 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 photo shows the Honoria and the RNLI lifeboat “Brothers”.”

Thanks to Derick Pearson, supplemented by the Redcar Shipwrecks list and to Fred and Sue Bishop for the updates.

Fred Brunskill tells us: ”The Saxon Prince was a wooden hulled paddle tug from North Sheilds. Built in 1874 she had a twin cylinder steam engine and a crew of four.
In July 1907 she was towing a lighter when she ran aground in fog and was left stranded…Local boatowners ferried out hundreds of people as she became a tourist attraction for the town. She sustained severe damage and eventually was broken up.”

Thanks to Fred Brunskill and the wreck is confirmed in Redcar Ship Wrecks.

What more can I say about this photo?  It’s all written there, even the photographers name.

(image courtesy of  Kathleen Hicks)

We can with assistance decypher the caption below the image as:

”Redcar Awa Maru – came ashore December 28th 1908”. She had a crew of 120 according to the image. But there is some discussion about other possible dates and groundings. There are other images portraying the  Awa Maru aground at Redcar in  different positions and some have dates of 1906 and others with 1914, so either she was very unlucky at Redcar or people put the wrong dates on the photos. 

Thanks to Derick Pearson for the update.

”27/12/1906 – Even a Japanese ’Awa Maru’ liner fell foul of the West-scar rocks drifting helplessly towards them during a severe storm. The ship of 6,000 tons was en route from Antwerp. All the seamen and passengers aboard the vessel were saved by local fishermen. Following an 18 day stay on the rocks the vessel was eventually re floated. All of the ’Maru ships were part of the Nippon Yusen Kaishoi Line which visited Middlesbrough (the Tees) Re floated 13/01/1907. Captained by a British Skipper Captain Forbes.” Details from Redcar Shipwrecks.

Fred Brunskill tells us: ”This is the Japanese liner the ‘Awa Maru’ Built in 1899 she came aground on Westscar and was there for 18 daye before being refloated. Her crew of 112 were all saved by the Redcar lifeboatmen. She continued in service until being scrapped in 1930.”

Thanks to Fred for the update.