NEMT Newsletters from 2007

Originally a post made in May 2024.

Newsletters had been produced from the very early days of NEMT but it was not until 2007 that some of us including myself thought to store them as pages on the ‘Web’, the cost and effort of producing and circulating copies having become prohibitive a few years earlier.

Notes about the ‘gaps’ are at the foot of the page.

2007	May	NEMT has been awarded Charity Status, Feb 2007, No. 1117855
2007	July	Portsoy Festival, Caledonian Canal and Shed Roof
2007	November	QE2 Visit to the Tyne, Rachel Douglas, Scottish Tour

2010	December	Restoration of Henry Frederick Swan, Sovereign and Spring Tide
2011	June	Restoration of Henry Frederick swan, Wren and Sovereign
2011	September	Restoration of Henry Frederick swan, and various other vessels
2011	December	Restoration of Henry Frederick swan
2012	September	Restoration of Henry Frederick swan and Spring Tide
2013	March	Restoration of Henry Frederick swan and Spring Tide
2013	December	Restoration of Life Boats: Tyne and Henry Frederick Swan
2014	March	Restoration of Life Boats: Tyne and Henry Frederick Swan
2014	June	Restoration: Royal Diadem, Henry Frederick Swan, Tyne and Wren
2014	September	Visit to Blyth, Newcastle Old Boats Festival and Henry Frederick Swan
2014	December	Restoration: HFS and Foy Boat ‘Joan’
2015	March	Trip to Seahouses, Barcelona Treaty and Restoration of HFS
2015	June	Defaced Ensigns, Restoration of HFS Joan and Rosie
2015	September	Restoration of HFS Joan and Rosie, Visits to Anstruther and Portsoy
2015	December	Restoration of HFS and Foy Boat Joan

2020	September	Covid 19, relaxation of restrictions around the Workshop.
2021	Summer	Covid 19 upheavals. Let’s hope that’s all behind us now.
2022	Autumn	Arriving soon – Our New Historic Boats for Restoration
2023	Summer	Bedford, Tyne Race, Bridlington Coble Festival
2024	Summer	New Website address as follows – www.nemaritimetrust.org.uk
2024	Autumn	https://nemaritimetrust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/New-Publication-Autmn-2024.pdf
2025	Spring	Headline Misinformation from the Chair of NEMT

2007-2009: the lifeboat Henry Frederick Swan was given to NEMT by members of the trust who had purchased it in 2005 and the NFHT acquired Sovereign and the production of the Newsletters was dropped during that time and it looks like if any had been produced they failed to come to the attention of those trying to introduce a website for either NEMT and/or its sister organisation NFHT.

During 2015 the Facebook site, www.facebook.com/henryfrederick.swan took over from the newsletters which saved the considerable cost of producing them if nothing else.

This in turn was superseded turn by a Twitter Account in on July 24th 2020, which introduced itself with – This is the real NEMT. Accept no other:-

At about the same time as the Twitter account was started, the Newsletter was reintroduced in 2020 and the 2024 version in the latest table is a light weight copy (150kb) as the original was produced with a water mark and weighed in at 8mb.

In the Autumn of 2024 the Chair of NEMT took exception to my request that the bequest of money from the sale be spread more evenly between NEMT and its sister Trust NFHT, saying in his Newsletter:-

Sorry to say, a former member of NEMT and now a former Trustee of NFHT has know-
ingly taken over and abused our old Website for his own ends and personal opinions. We
have spent a great deal of time and effort to try and rectify this ridiculous situation. At an
NEMT Trustee meeting we were left with no option but to follow our protocol and sent a
letter to him indicating our intentions. He is now permanently deleted as a member of
NEMT. Please accept our apologies for this unavoidable situation which we hope will be
resolved very soon.

Should we fail to reach a satisfactory conclusion, we will have to consider pursuing legal
action and we have reported the matter to the police. Situations such as this are appar-
ently quite common and we won’t give up.

They did pursue legal action and paid NFHT nothing like what was due but what their lawyer thought they could get away while withholding a considerable sum of money.