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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.

It was a rather tongue in cheek message because by mid 2024, I realised that he had deliberately removed the history of NEMT with regard to them restoring vessels and NFHT looking after them once they had been restored, that I was reminded that some of lies told by the Chairman of the North East Maritime Trust, Mr A Renwick, after he took command of the North East Maritime Trust in 2020 were often of a fraudulent nature.*

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For the attention of the Chairman of NEMT

On Saturday, the second of August, I decided to travel down from Amble to visit the North East Maritime Trust (NEMT) to see how their team of volunteers were progressing with the restoration of the Coble Golden Gleam and was disappointed to find both the workshop and slipway closed and discovered on my way home, the Rachel Douglas, looking like she had been abandoned in the so called ‘South Shields Marina’.

One might argue that to say abandoned is a bit strong but I cannot imagine that she was sent down from St Peters Basin, last weekend, other than to be given some care and attention on the slipway owned by the charity of which you are currently the Chairman and it would appear that someone associated with NEMT, if not an actual member, holds a key to the gate shutting off the path by which the Rachel Douglas was moored by tying her to a couple of railing posts.