When I lived less than half a mile from their workshop it was relatively easy to collect bits and pieces of information to make posts to the website that were sufficiently interesting to attract many thousands of views and when I moved away, 2-3 hours away by public transport, I thought the best thing to do was to hand the site over to those who were nominally in charge and did this was done in late 2019.
The transfer included the monthly payment to the provider and its content at the time but its new editor, Mr Renwick NEMT’s Chair alias chockerblock, quickly betrayed my trust by removing much of the history of the North East Maritime Trust from 2011 while the Treasurer who was Mr P Gray, quite reasonably took responsibility for the payments or the site. Fortunately, I had not handed the entire editorship over and was able to reduce chockerblock’s status to someone who could not make any material changes to the website had been reliably reporting what was happening in 2/3 Wapping St, South Shields over the years.
Unfortunately, as things turned out, I made the mistake of not deleting his username (chockerblock) and five years later he used this to falsely claim ownership of nemaritimetrust.co.uk in March 2024.
Over the five years, I’ve attempted to fill in some of the missing history but it is difficult when I have to spend time in countering much of what comes my and in particular Mr Renwick’s Newsletters. In the latest he makes a blatantly false accusation about my membership of the Charity that I had supported for the last twenty years or so:
Headline News – As you may know, our original website has been hijacked by a former member and is being used to disseminate incorrect information sometimes bordering on slander. This member left under a cloud of rancour and suspicion many years ago and his membership was rescinded. Our new official website can be found using the following link: www.nemaritimetrust.org.uk.
The original website was never his, it had been created by me in 2014, although he had gained control it by giving misinformation to one of the Agents of the Provider TSOHost in early 2024 and used it to remove NFHT from their part in keeping the vessels restored by the Charity NEMT safe in order to preserve some fine examples of boats built on the North East Coast for its fishing fleet, including the Royal Diadem II and the Tynemouth Lifeboat.
Before his ‘Headline News’, Mr Renwick could possibly have claimed that the deletions had been a mistake but not after. Much of this was described in posts made by me in 2024 but to get to the point of this post I wish to say that it was not me but the author of the NEMT Newsletter who was happy to disseminate incorrect information sometimes bordering on slander, not slander it is libel, when he wrote in the nemaritimetrust.co.uk:-
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!
I was not able to correct his change of use of the nemaritimetrust.co.uk, from reporting what both NEMT and NFHT were doing to preserve a small fleet, to trading personal insults so I copied what I could from the existing website and asked Nominet to change the Provider and had to start again with a completely empty website at about the same time that his Summer 2024 Newsletter was produced.
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