To those who follow the Website nemaritimetrust.co.uk, here is a criticism of the conduct of the current Chair of NEMT, Mr A Renwick.
Dear All
I received a copy of the NEMT Newsletter for the Autumn of 2024 but unfortunately filed it under Publication rather than Newsletter and discovered my error just a few weeks ago and anyone who has any concerns about the conduct of the Trust’s Chairman can now view a copy.
Before we look into any detail I maintain it was misfiled because it was seen by looking up the last newsletter posted in his website nemaritimetrust.org.uk.
One or two things one must bear in mind when reading this copy and the first was that Mr Renwick falsely claimed in a broken promise that the coble Golden Gleam lay rotting St Peters. In his words of the 15th February, 2024:-
“This inaction was repeated many times, especially regarding the hoped for restoration of your very historic coble Golden Gleam; now rotting away at St Peters. A very poor reflection on any so called Heritage Trust.
Four months later, acting as the Chair of NEMT, he accused me of stealing my own website, nemaritimetrust.co.uk, to drive a wedge between the trustees of NFHT and NEMT by threatening me on the 18th of June 2024 in an email which he had copied to six others besides myself:-
I simply ask all at NFHT to make Mick Dawson see sense and transfer our nemaritimetrust.co.uk website back to NEMT where it belongs.
As ever, I’m always available to talk in an attempt to end with a satisfactory conclusion.
Unfortunatly until that happens NEMT will not be in a position to discuss any future NFHT collaboration or plan vessel repairs on these premises.
The recovered Newsletter of August 2024 was not the first newsletter to express a personal grudge against a fellow member of NE Maritime Trust. The first was found in his Newsletter of Summer 2024 which was published about the same time as the email of 18th June, in which he declared:-
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
‘Our Website’ was neither his nor offline by the time that Newsletter was published and to say it was unreliable was more than just an opinion, it was an outright lie. I discovered in March 2024 that my removal as the administrator of nemaritimetrust.co.uk was by Mr Renwick who had misinformed TSOHost, the website provider, in order to replace me with himself.
Fortunately I had a copy of what remained of the Website on my PC after much of it had been removed by whom I now think of as the ‘True Gremlin’ and together with many of the records I had kept since about the time I had created the nemaritimetrust.co.uk so that the site one sees today much resembles the historical site with a few gaps. This reconstructed site was the one sent to another provider with myself as its administrator, by the end of April 2024.
A good while before the reconstruction of my old site and the reason it had to be done was that Mr Renwick had been given some editorial control of the original site but he abused the privilege to delete many of the posts that referred to the restoration by NEMT of what I consider to be the Northumbrian Fishing Fleet. It consisted the Rachel Douglas, the Favourite, the Sovereign and the Cobles Peggy and Royal Diadem. The Royal Diadem is included because when first restored, she was in the care of the Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust.