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FIVE brave people who died at Redcar trying to save lives at sea will be among those remembered on the first national RNLI memorial.
The sculpture will be unveiled in the autumn at the charity's Dorset headquarters.
Most names on it will be RNLI volunteers, but other maritime lifesavers, including those from HM Coastguard, will also be remembered.
And five people from Redcar will be honoured.
The names of William Guy, Richard, John and Edmund Picknett and Margaret Emmans, nee Crosby, will all be included.
It will be a poignant moment for current crew member Mike Picknett, who each year pays tribute at the Redcar Cemetery graveside of his relatives.
Lifeboat coxswain Richard Picknett drowned on January 9, 1901, when he and six other family members launched their fishing coble to try and help steam trawler Honoria.
Richard, then aged 60, was washed from the coble along with his nephews John, 23, and Edmund Picknett, 21. All three men drowned.
Mike Picknett, the current lifeboat's senior helmsman, said: "Richard was my great, great uncle and John and Edmund were my great cousins.