North East Maritime Trust
The site was lost in mid March 2024 during a dispute about the ownership of the domain nemaritimetrust.co.uk but the problem actally stemmed from the decision made by the board of NEMT during 2020 to withhold funds from its sister organisation – the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust.
Some of the funds were released in early 2023 and the dispute about the ownership of the domain was not resolved in April 2024 and unfortunately, during that time much of the history of the two trusts, since 2005 was lost. The early posts in the nemaritimetrust.co.uk referred to the time before it was registered in May 2014.
Lost is probably a euphemism. Many of the nemaritimetrust.co.uk pages and posts were ‘lost’ after chockerblock gained administrative control of the site and they were mostly from early days of the sister Trusts. When it was discovered that most of the pages and posts that referred to a time before 2019 were missing and that the provider was not prepared to return control of the site to the rightful owner Nominet was asked to switch the provider.
While this was being done, much of the remains of the ruined site were being recovered and posted to the temporary site and hopefully, some of them and posts relevant relevant to them can be recovered from other sources but it will take some time. *
So for the time being here is copy of a page from National Historic Ships UK, the details of which were given to them from the posts and pages of the nemaritimetrust.co.uk, in happier times.
About North East Maritime Trust (NEMT)
NEMT’s focus is on traditional (wooden) working boat restoration, repair, conservation, maintenance and sailing. Their objectives are, principally:
To educate the public in relation to the maritime heritage of the United Kingdom, especially the North East of England and to encourage and facilitate the restoration, repair, maintenance, conservation and public display of historic working vessels and maritime craft, as well as maritime artefacts of all kinds.
The coast of North East of England, from Berwick in the north to Whitby and beyond in the south has an extremely rich historic maritime and cultural heritage. The river Tyne is the birthplace of the first purpose built lifeboats and the formation of what was later to become the RNLI.
NEMT encourages and invites everyone with an interest in maritime history to come along; they are welcome to see volunteers in action restoring or maintaining historic boats. Their restored boats are often to be seen on the river Tyne or off shore on the east coast.
Volunteer Community
The main work of NEMT is undertaken by volunteers in the Fishermens’ Workshop and Boatshed at 2-3 Wapping Street, off River Drive in South Shields, NE33 1LQ.
Members of the public, whether skilled or not, are encouraged to become members and assist on various projects.
North East Maritime Trust is open to the public between 10.00 and 15.00 Tuesdays & Wednesdays and on Saturday mornings.
Special opening arrangements are made to accommodate school visits, and other interested groups. The Trust offers a friendly and welcoming environment and the annual membership fee is £15 to cover administrative costs.
* the temporary home would be better described as a bridge between the old and new pages and posts associated with the domain nemaritimetrust.co.uk and will remain.