Five Months In

Yesterday the number of views to this site, nemaritimetrust.co.uk, passed 25,000 compared to the old site’s of 80,000 in the ten years of its existence. The nemaritimetrust site was taken down after it had become corrupted earlier this year.

A second trust, the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust had been formed to maintain the assets created by the work of the volunteers while at the same time one must appreciate that the maintenance of all the vessels saved by NEMT could not be done without sponsorships and grants from various bodies such as the Barbour Foundation, International Paints and South Tyneside Council etc being shared between the two trusts.

This who remember the original site will remember the a banner line at the foot of the main page showing the major sponsors but I never thought to include a copy of the main page when I was forced to move the site to another provider by the actions of the Chairman.

Hopefully the full list of sponsors still exists.

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DRS 26876 nemaritimetrust.co.uk

29 July 2024
Dear Sir or Madam
Thank you for the copy of the dispute raised by Mr A Renwick of Fisherman’s Workshop, Wapping St, South Shields and the covering letter giving instructions on how to deal with his request/demand that you transfer the domain nemaritimetrust.co.uk to a different service provider from the one where it is currently administered. Please treat this letter as my response.
The domain had been registered with Nominet under my name for over ten years and as the registration was about to expire, 22nd May, I had to act quickly to counter Mr Renwick’s false claim that the domain had been transferred to him when I gave him access to the website of the same name in October 2020.
I soon discovered that he had deleted most of the history North East Maritime Trust from the time that NEMT gained its charitable status in February 2007 until late 2019 and revoked his permission to prevent him from making any further amendments to a site that had, until October 2020, reflected the history, not only of NEMT but that of the Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust as well.
In March I discovered that I could no longer access the website and as I was not able to persuade the provider, TSOHost to return it to me, its rightful owner so I contacted your office and worked out that the best way to to regain control of the site was to change providers and they were very helpful especially as I had already found another provider, IONOS.

When I had given them evidence that I, Mr M Dawson residing in Amble, owned the domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk, all I needed to do was to pay the £12 fee and the switch was accomplished on the 3rd of April, please see the attached file, ChangeofRegistrar-03-Apr-24.pdf.
As far as I can see, there is simply, nothing to dispute. A request was made of your office to switch service provider and it was done in the first week of April without any trouble and I certainly did not need Mr Renwick’s permission to ask them to make the switch.
What concerns me, is Mr Renwick’s charge that it is I that was abusing the system when it was clearly he who was causing the abuse and wasting both yours and my time by completing the form that the Dispute Resolution Service Team were bound to consider.
Please note he is the sole complainant, there are no legal proceedings in connection with the domain name and more importantly, he has provided no evidence to back his claim that that I have been making ‘personal defamatory attacks include malicious and incorrect information’ against him. He cannot provide any evidence because there is none.
I logged into Nominet this morning and can confirm that nemaritimetrust.co.uk is still with me and that it expires on 22-May-27 so no worries there but it’s become obvious that Mr Renwick was trying to use your good office to hide his misconduct in managing to rewrite the history of the Trust for which he is responsible which in turn raises the question and why did he want to do that?
It is money and or favours of course and I believe the misinformation he gave in completing the form that gave rise to DRS26876 would be better described as fraudulent misrepresentation and a criminal offence.
The law has more important things to do at the moment with the rioters etc. and it can wait but please feel free to use this as a good example of how valuable a domain can be and how far fraudsters are prepared to go to claim possession of them.
I promise to hold the peace until the 19th.

Kind Regards
Mick Dawson

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Personal Defamatory Attacks

In a complaint to Nominet about the domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk by the Chair of NEMT he mentions personal defamatory attacks which include malicious and incorrect information which have been made against him and some possibly were but they were not made by the owner of the domain nemaritimetrust.co.uk. In fact the available evidence shows that flow of malicious and incorrect information was in the other direction and particularly against Mr Dawson:-

15-Mar-24, AR to PW: I also notice that Mick Dawson (NFHT) has conspired to scam our website with similar unauthorised data, blocking any input from NEMT.
An attempt to remove his access from our website about two years ago has obviously been circumvented, these actions must be removed immediately.

15-Mar-24, KB to PW: Are you implying that a member of NEMT is responsible for this disgraceful personalised and aggressive attack.
I believe the person in question is in fact a member of NFHT board and has not been a member of NEMT for several years. – Mr Barnard (KB) was referring to Mr Dawson.

17-Mar-24, KB to MD: I note that you are not a member of NEMT but are a director of nfht whom, I assume you speak for. I am an elected member of NEMT and was elected by the membership because they wished me to take that position. It’s called democracy.
The reason you have not seen the minutes is because you are not a member, just thought I would clear that question up for you.

One can only assume that Mr Barnard was told I was not a member of NEMT by Mr Renwick but he does not apologise until the 26th:-

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DRS 26876 at workflow.nominet.org.uk

What rights is Mr A Renwick asserting?

Our Rights to This Domain have been removed by Mr Michael Dawson as follows;
The domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk has now been claimed and used by Mr Michael Dawson- (daw50nmdj@hotmail.co.uk) and has a high risk of being used in a way that is likely to endanger deversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in our part of the domain name system.
The domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk was registered in May 2014 by the said Michael Dawson.

Mr Dawson originally registered the website for North East Maritime Trust, circa 2010, then transferred it to myself as its administrator in Oct 2020. The Website was not transferred to Mr Renwick. He was given administrative rights which were withdrawn when it was discovered that nearly all the posts from 2011 to 2019 had been deleted. NEMT paid all TSOcosts hosting costs involved since then. However, Mr Dawson took advantage of my limited ability to understand the danger of unlocked website access, then transfered the website from TSO Host to Ionos without seeking permission to do so.
The Website was transferred to IONOS because Mr Renwick had persuaded someone in TSOHost to replace Mr Dawson as the administrator of nemaritimetrust.co.uk with himself and as TSOHost could not be persuaded correct their error. Mr Dawson was left no alternative but to switch providers for which he did not need permission from anyone, especially Mr Renwick!

However, after his own personal dispute regarding essential and necessary operational issues, Mr Dawson has removed access by myself as name ‘chockblock’ or anyone at this organisation North East Maritime Trust. His, ‘chockerbloc’s, status was reduced from administrator to subscriber by Mr Dawson when it was became apparent that much of the history of the Trust had been removed by Mr Renwick Further, he refused to delete the website, tranfer as requested or modify its administration and has, in fact, made it his own website which we have no control over.
Mr Dawson would like to point out that he had maintained the website from 2010, registered the domain name in 2014 and had no complaints from anyone in NEMT until Mr Renwick was voted in as its Chair after the death of Jerry Dudman on March 2020.

Other internet users (including but not limited to the distribution of viruses and malware, phishing activity, or facilitating distributed denial of service attacks) are obviously crucial in this regard.
Nonsense, nemaritimetrust.co.uk was made secure when the site was moved from Daily to TSOHost in November 2019.

Personal defamatory attacks include malicious and incorrect information, which seems to be the norm, especially in my case. Social engineering of this nature is having a direct effect on this charity’s future viability.
Mr Dawson was not one of those making personal defamatory attacks. The malicious and incorrect information began to be posted on the site nemaritimetrust.co.uk soon after Mr Renwick took total control of it in March 2024. There was no way of countering it and therefore it became one of the main drivers when the decision was taken to switch the provider from TSOHost to IONOS.


Originally hosted by Daily, then TSOHost, then later transferred to Ionos, this situation is extremely detrimental to our UK registered charities future, which we now have no control or editorial rights which have been removed by him. The editorial rights were removed by him. Mr Renwick’s editorial rights were first removed when it was noticed that he had removed nearly all of the history of the North East Maritime Trust from the Website from when it became a charity until 2019 with the exception of that of the lifeboat built by Saunders Roe, Cowes, Isle of Wight.

I/We ask that the www.nemaritimetrust.co.uk domain is put on hold and/or Transferred to our new hosting company Kualo.
It appears that Mr Renwick wished nemaritimetrust.co.uk to be transferred to his domain nemaritimetrust.org.uk so that he could again, rewrite the history of the North East Maritime Trust since it became a charity in 2007.

Why is the domain name an Abusive Registration?

Abusive registration

After his own personal dispute regarding operational issues, Mr Dawson has removed access by myself or anyone at NEMT. What operational issues? It was Mr Renwick who claimed that Website nemaritimetrust.co.uk had been stolen, not Mr Dawson He refused to delete the website or modify its administration and has, in fact, made it his own. – see Web references above, it had been Mr Dawson’s site since 2010.

This is considered an Abusive Registration; – only by Mr Renwick.

As a result of this, we have been forced to purchase and initiate a new nemaritimetrust.org.uk domain (currently under construction) via Kualo, all at great expense. Efforts to protect this domain are crucial and are currently in operation.
Which domain the .org.uk one or .co.uk one? Mr Renwick was not forced to create a new domain name, it was his choice and it turns out that it was done because I had moved the pages from nfht.co.uk into a sub-group of pages within nemaritimetrust.co.uk because the objectives of both Trusts were the same. Those pages disappeared when he gained control of nemaritimetrust.co.uk by lying to TSOHost’s representative shortly before Match 15th 2024.

Other internet users (including but not limited to the distribution of viruses and malware, phishing activity, or facilitating distributed denial of service attacks) are obviously crucial in this regard. Irrelevant!


Personal defamatory attacks include malicious and incorrect information, which seems to be the norm, especially in my case. Social engineering of this nature is having a direct effect on this charity’s future viability.
It was Mr Renwick who was making false accusations about the theft of nemaritimetrust.co.uk, not Mr Dawson.

Personal attacks on my viability as Chairperson and incorrect potentially defamatory information are central to this complaint. There was no need to to make any personal attacks on Mr Renwick and none were made. All Mr Dawson needed to do was prove that the Mick Dawson who had registered nemaritimetrust.co.uk when he was treasurer of NEMT, 2-3 Wapping St, South Shields was the same Mick Dawson who lived in Church St Amble and that was easily and when £12 was paid to Nominet the transfer of the domain and accompanying website took place within a couple of days.

Our rights to this domain have been removed by Mr Michael Dawson.
No. Mr Dawson moved the domain out of the reach Mr Renwick’s reach

Originally hosted by Daily, then TSO Host, then later transferred to Ionos, this situation is extremely detrimental to our UK registered charities future.

I/We ask that the www.nemaritimetrust.co.uk domain is either put on hold and or transferred to Kualo as previously requested to Mr Dawson, who refuses to speak directly so that a way forward can be agreed.
Mr Dawson has put nemaritimetrust.co.uk beyond Mr Renwick’s reach and has no wish for it to be converted to a variation of a Henry Frederick Swan Appreciation Society magazine again. Mr Renwick is free to do that with nemaritimetrust.org.uk.

How would you like this complaint to be resolved?

Transfer

Additional Complainants:

[no additional complainants]

As far as you are aware have any legal proceedings been issued or terminated in connection with the domain name?

[answered no]

Are there any web pages that support this dispute?

[none provided]

[end of submission]

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HFS Visit to Blyth, 6th July

Very nice comment by the skipper of the yacht Aurelia:

Saturday July 5 my wife and I enjoyed a short trip on the Henry Frederick James on the river Blyth, invited by its crew.
They told us about the history of this lifeboat , detailed what the present engine is like and demonstrated the horn. We are impressed by the effort it must have taken to restore this boat. Impressive too is how this boat must have been operated when it went out to rescue people.
Thank you for a wonderful afternoon!
Wim & Ria Albus
yacht Aurelia

eileannanron@delta.nl

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Gaps in the Archive

Control of the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk was regained by its rightful owner when Nominet was asked to switch the provider from TSOHost to IONOS but the switch left big gaps in the archive:-

  • 2005 – June 2008;
  • 2011 – 2018
  • 2020 – 2024

2005 – June 2008

The North East Maritime Trust had, by June 2008, restored the fishing boats, Rachel Douglas and Favourite and sailed them up the Coast to attend a festival in Seahouses.

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NEMT and its Chairman

It would appear that the Chairman of the North East Maritime Trust, Mr Alec Renwick, had been planning to rewrite its history since 14th October 2022 with a new website, nemaritimetrust.org.uk:-

LOOKUP nemaritimetrust.org.uk
Domain Repository Object Identifier: D_78192392-UK
Lifecycle
Domain Expiry 2024-10-14
Domain last updated 2024-05-14
Domain created 2022-10-14
Registrar
Registrar typically acts as an agent for the registrant to manage the domain at the registry. Registrar Name (ID): Kualo Ltd (ID: KUALO)
Registrar Tel: 0800-138-3235
Registrar Email: sales@kualo.com
Registrar URL: https://www.kualo.co.uk/
Registrar Address: 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, United Kingdom

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NEMT Chair v NEMT Website Owner

How wrong could one be about Mr Renwick. Very early on June the 18th in an email to the Trustees of the NFHT and some members of NEMT,* including Mr Dawson, he reverted to his habit of calling Mr Dawson a thief:-

As you will be aware the previously transferred to NEMT, owned and paid for nemaritimetrust.co.uk Website has been stolen by Mick Dawson who appears to have taken advantage of its unlocked status.damage both NFHT and NEMT organisations. I have tried to speak to Mick recently, only to be told “I should know why”
Well, I don’t!

He had been told by Mr Dawson, when he interrupted a conversation about the damaged slipway with one of the NEMT members to say that he wanted a word, to put what he wanted to say in writing. The reason he was asked to do that was in order to elevate any slander to libel but what is most disturbing is that the Chairman of NEMT concludes his email with a threat:-

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NEMT Chair v Mick Dawson

I discovered on the 15th March 2024, that I was no longer able to log into a website that had addressed the needs of two trusts for a good while, the trusts being the North East Maritime Trust and the Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust. The site was nemaritimetrust.co.uk and it was created by me about the time when members of NEMT began to populate NFHT which was about ten years ago. At that time it was hosted by Daily.co.uk.

Daily.co.uk were taken over by TSOHost and the change was so seamless that it would not be noticed by anyone except the person who had to administer the website, me again, and it took place before the two Trusts were forced apart by unequal division of a legacy in late 2019.

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NEMT: X stream

A mysterious post appeared on the stream on June 23rd 2024 at 03:11 pm:-


The ‘previous’ rogue member was none other than Mr Dawson can only conclude that the post of 18th June 2024 and the comments made against it by him that he was the ‘previous, now rogue member’ referred to by post’s author and one should note that when he says ‘our website’ he is claiming ownership of the nemaritimetrust.co.uk, something which has never been his.

In detail:- the so called ‘our website’ is not actually theirs and the so called ‘previous member’ is one of those members who thinks that a Chairman of a Trust should not be calling anyone a rogue with out any evidence to back to back his claim.
Please note that in his post of 18th June he had also called one of the members of NEMT a thief:

As you will be aware the previously transferred to NEMT, owned and paid for nemaritimetrust.co.uk Website has been stolen by Mick Dawson who appears to have taken advantage of its unlocked status.

It was perfectly secure which was why Mr Dawson was no able to log into a site, that he had maintained for well over ten years on, March the 15th 2024.
It was never owned by NEMT but they were happy to pay for it while the views of Mr Dawson did not differ from that of its Trustees but not long after the Mr Alec Renwick accepted the post of Chair of the Trust on 2020 and he was given editorial access to nemaritimetrust.co.uk and the history of Trust from 2005 to 2019 recorded on the Website just vanished.


If one looks up NEMTnews one will see that there were no events between when the North East Maritime Trust was founded in 2005 and when the Twitter account was first set up in 2020.

If one look at the early posts in nemaritimetrust.co.uk which are still available, 2008 to 2010 in the Archive one will see that while they appear dated they are comparable with the more modern Social Media posted from 2015 to 2019 on Facebook than that posted in NEMTnews.

Now compare NEMT with the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust:-

As well as saving and restoring historic working vessels, the Trust takes vessels to events and uses other display opportunities on the Tyne and other places on the east coast. When possible, the public are given access onto the vessels, with detailed guidance being given by members of the Trust and associates. The Trust works in partnership with the North East Maritime Trust.

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