It was a rather tongue in cheek message made in response to his Headline News of his newsletter published mid 2024:-
Headline News – Due to unforeseen circumstances our Website is currently still offline. We apologise if you have been affected by this or for any inconvenience caused. But be assured that we are trying to sort this out, in the meantime please be patient.
However, our new Website below will replace and be much better than the original which was very unreliable anyway.
Once this horrible little gremlin has been removed we hope to be back on-line very soon with our new improved Website address as follows – www.nemaritimetrust.org.uk.
At the same time, I realised that he had deliberately removed the history of NEMT with regard to the vessels they restored and the NFHT looking after the same once they had been restored, from the website, nemaritimetrust.co.uk and had not replaced any of it, on the ‘new improved Website’.
By the time the Newsletter was published, I had got nemaritimetrust.co.uk back online, it was never his to call ours, and started to recover much of the missing history of the North East Maritime Trust. His ‘Headline News’ reminded me that some of his lies, after he took command of the North East Maritime Trust in 2020 were often of a fraudulent nature.*
I had lost contact with him after he had his dropped his contact with NEMT because of his work commitments in March 2011:
Mick, Thanks for your reply and explan’t’n which sounds like it makes sense to continue with Daily.
Unfortunately I’m not in a position to help at the moment due to work commitments, which has also led to my recent lack of contact with NEMT.
Keep up the good work.
Alec
After I had taken up permanent residency in Amble in 2019 my visits to the NEMT workshop and slipway became rare they as took the best part of a day using public transport but I had become aware that Mr Renwick had renewed his interest in the affairs of NFHT and NEMT because:
1) he had been invited to a meeting of the NFHT in a coffee house in Newcastle in August 2019:
Many thanks Peter. See you there.
Alec
He did not attend the meeting and incidently, the email address, m.dawson@nfht.co.uk, no longer exists as the Website nfht.co.uk was taken down at the request of its remaining Trustees when I resigned my trusteeship of the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust in April 2024.
2) he requested access to the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk on 3rd December 2019.
I gave him access to Nemaritimetrust.co.uk by creating his user chockerblock and giving him administrative rights, which to put it bluntly, he abused by removing much of the history of the two Trusts working together in repairing and restoring some of the traditional fishing boats of the North East of England and he did this by deleting nearly all posts from the years 2011 to 2019.
To prevent him doing any more damage to the website for which I had cared for many years, I removed all his administrative right but left him, chockerblock, as a contributor because I could not be sure that the deletion of 8 years’ worth of posts was not done in error. Error or not, I knew that much of work that had been done by both the Trusts had been covered by Newsletters from 2011 to 2016 and by Social Media from 2015-2019 and I was not over concerned until I discovered that I had been locked out of nemaritimetrust.co.uk around mid-March 2024.
The post “NEMT Chair v NEMT Website Owner” was not long compared to some that can be found on the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk but it makes the basic point that it could not possibly have been stolen by me, its owner:
Nominet manages the UK domain name registry and if they had responded to Mr Renwick’s email they would have told him that the domain name, nemaritimetrust.co.uk, did not belong to him but to a Mr M Dawson of Amble and what Mr Dawson did with it was entirely up to him and not Mr Renwick.
Mr Renwick had gained control my website by deceit and note that he hides this by shifting the blame onto someone else by saying, an aggrieved member of this Charity is responsible”.
It was then that the whole tone of nemaritimetrust.co.uk changed with his first and last post made between the day when Mr Renwick conned one of TSOHost’s agents into making him an administrator of my website and the second agent reduced his status to that of a contributor on March 15th 2024:
Unfortunately our site has been almost destroyed by scamming, but we are trying to sort it out. As you can see, certain nasty Trustees of Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust (NFHT) have deleted some of our precious content. Pathetic, isn’t it!
However, this disgraceful act has pointed NEMT in the direction of rebuilding our now outdated website, which we hope will soon be active.
Thank you for your patience.
I was not able to correct the misinformation but Mr Renwick had been hoist by his own petard because he left me with no choice other to transfer the domain and website to another provider and it would have been empty with no pages or posts i.e. the equivalent of all the content being deleted and while it was relatively easy to transfer what remained the of the archive to the new website, the posts were problematic** and only a couple were copied across and they were mainly about the Bedford which was NEMT’s last major project.
*He wrote to six trustees of the two Charities, on the 7th January 2023, that he found my objection to his plan to withhold £13k from the charity NFHT, objectionable and that it was part of a series of aggressive emails that I had sent him.
** because all the posts from September 2011 to December 2019 had been deleted by Mr Renwick while he had been given the opportunity by an Agent of TSOHost in the first months of 2024.