Control of the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk was regained by its rightful owner when Nominet was asked to switch the provider from TSOHost to IONOS but the switch left big gaps in the archive:-
- 2005 – June 2008;
- 2011 – 2018
- 2020 – 2024
2005 – June 2008
The North East Maritime Trust had, by June 2008, restored the fishing boats, Rachel Douglas and Favourite and sailed them up the Coast to attend a festival in Seahouses.
2011 to – 2019
On the 23rd March 2011 08:39, Alec Renwick wrote:-
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
On the 20th, September 2018 18:17, he wrote in response to a request from a NEMT member to please use email instead of texting or phoning until his mobile phone had been repaired:-
Will do, thanks for letting me know.
Alec
During that time Daily.co.uk were taken over by TSOHost and the gap partially filled by FB Pages, 2015 to 2019 called henryfrederick.swan and while the posts were often about the lifeboats ‘Henry Frederick Swan’, ‘Tyne’ and ‘Bedford’, there were many others about restoration of the Tyne foy boat ‘Joan’, the cobles ‘Peggy’ and ‘Royal Diadem II’, the traditional fishing vessels ‘Rachel Douglas’, ‘Favourite’ and ‘Sovereign’ along with posts about other vessels.
That left a gap between March 2011 and March 2015:-
The gap is unlikely to be filled for some of the vessels mentioned above with the exception of the lifeboats and unless anyone can turn up any old magazine or newspaper articles. A shame because it looks like there is no longer any record of much of the work done by the NEMT volunteers for the ten years from 2005, when the Trust was formed, to 2015.
2020 to 2024
This gap was filled with Facebook pages written by the Chair of NEM and the series began with one written on the 24th July 2020:-
It was still running when he broadcast some fake news in late June 2024:-
It is simply not NEMT’s website, it was written and maintained for about ten years by a member who helped, until he moved away, not only with the repair and restoration of traditional fishing boats of the North East but especially with the repair of the lifeboat built on the South Coast.
The so called ‘rogue member’ had enjoyed the progress made over the years and designed and helped build such things as the boat for the Customs House Project. The author of the piece from June ’23 was hiding the fact that the rogue member had stopped him from posting fake news such as that relayed above, on social media, on the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk.