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This sort of notice is given out fairly regularly but it has only just occurred to me as the owner, that it could be put to good use, and that is to challenge the repeated demand by the self appointed Chair of the North East Maritime Trust, that I hand him the ownership of the site: nemaritimetrust.co.uk.

That will not happen because when he had been allowed to add to the website, he betrayed my trust and took the opportunity to delete the posts that mostly referred to the boats that NEMT had restored and made seaworthy and had been handed over to the care of the NFHT.

I suggest that new Trustees of NEMT read Missing Archives¹ because subsequent actions by their Chairman have shown that they, the archives, were removed to rewrite the history of both NEMT and the former NFHT² for the benefit of those who were keen to divert the bulk of the funds donated to both Trusts since 2019, to be used almost exclusively, for the restoration and upkeep of the life boat, the Henry Frederick Swan.

WordPress advised me: daw50nmdj@gmail, about their latest update a few days ago not the Chairman: alec.renwick@gmail.com, because he was not and never has been, apart from a week or so in 2020, responsible for nemaritimetrust.co.uk and it is logic, rather than an opinion that comes up trumps on this view of events.

My challenge to Mr Mr Renwick, is that he changes the policy of misappropriating the funds, from Gordon Brown’s Legacy almost entirely for the maintenance of the lifeboat HFS ³ to one where they are more fairly distributed between all the restored boats and that includes those that are in the care of the charity the Northumbria Fishing Heritage⁴. That only requires that the income derived Gordon’s legacy be shared equally between between the two Trusts: NEMT and NFH, at least half each, for the time being.

Mick Dawson
Revised: 1st March 2026

1 the missing archives are about the restoration by NEMT of the boats, Rachel Douglas, Favourite and Sovereign plus the cobles, Royal Diadem and Peggy.
2 NFHT was set up by some the NEMT members, to look after the boats that had been restored and made seaworthy by the NEMT volunteers.
3 Notes on the Legacy References | nemaritimetrust.co.uk
4 NFH replaced NFHT during 2024/5.

A public declaration of the ownership of nemaritimetrust.co.uk

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The domain name theharbourview.co.uk is currently associated with an individual named Mick Dawson (or Michael Dawson), based on information from the North East Maritime Trust website.
This individual has been listed as a contact for email addresses associated with the domain, and public snippets from the North East Maritime Trust site discuss a dispute over the ownership of the domain, in which Mr. Dawson was involved.
Due to UK data privacy regulations (GDPR), the specific personal registration details of most .uk domain owners are hidden from public WHOIS searches by default unless they have explicitly opted to make them public.

AR’s view: for those who are new to this site AR is Alec Renwick, the Chair of the North East Maritime Trust and his view was explained in some detail in a post made on the 24th June 2024 and updated 3 months later on the 26th September.

Mick Dawson
6th January 2026

Nearly a year ago I wrote to the Chair of former Charity, NORTHUMBRIAN FISHING HERITAGE TRUST * on Saturday, November 30, 2024 18:05 about my membership of NEMT.

Dear Peter,

Please excuse the formality and take a look down to the forwarded email of the 13th November from Mr Renwick and note that it has not been answered. It is now well over two weeks since it was sent and I can confirm that I have not received a registered delivery since I received his email of that date. It is also likely that he does know my address in Amble as it was known to Martin Wilson over 5 years ago when he wrote to me when I was the treasurer of NFHT.

From what I can gather the decision to remove me from the membership of NEMT was taken at, what appears to be a secret meeting of a very select few on the 30th April and it occurs to me that Mr Wilson’s membership was taken away by a similar process five years ago. I am led to believe that apart from Mr Renwick himself, there was Mr Lund, the NEMT treasurer Dr Sue Griffiths and possibly Mr Barnard.

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Dear NEMT Member

October the 23rd, 2024 was a significant date in the dispute between your Chairman, Mr Renwick and myself about ownership of domain nemaritimetrust.co.uk which began in 2020 when I allowed him some editorial control of the site and he abused my trust ¹, by deleting many of the posts that referred to the work done by NEMT on restoring the vessels of North East’s fishing fleet that were owned by the membership from its early days in 2005.

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Image taken from the NEMT Spring Newsletter which was circulated amongst its members in April 2025 and it does not matter whether Dave is asleep or not because he gives it scale which indicates that the boat that they are building for the South Shields Sea Cadets is about eighteen foot long with a beam of six feet(5.5m x 1.8m) and we were told:-

The boats are jointly designed by the combined efforts of NEMT, SSSC and Marine Architect Francois Vivier, with boat parts supplied by Jordan Boats in Cumbria.