Alec Renwick alec.renwick@gmail.com, 5/8/2025 22:42
Re: Disappointing visit to NEMT 02-Aug- 25
To Mick Dawson mick.dawson@nemaritimetrust.co.uk
Copy: zoe.mcphail@planninginspectorate.gov.uk”
kevin.lund@nemaritimetrust.org.uk,
Sue Griffiths, Peter Weightman, Richard Branson
Below follows a commentary on his response to my complaint made on the morning of the 2nd August, 2025 and recently updated.
Mr Dawson
Please be aware that the email address you have used for me is for private use only.
He says “Do not use it again but provides no alternative email address. When he re-wrote the history ot the North East Maritime Trust under the cover of the nemaritimetrust.org.uk he began to use alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk, however, if one takes a look at his website one will see he advertises the email address info@nemaritimetrust.org.uk. Take your pick.
The one you are using for yourself belongs to North East Maritime Trust.
It never belonged to the North East Maritime Trust. It belonged to me, Mick Dawson, for over two decades – please see first post from November 2002.
I’m therefore asking you again to stop this rather annoying keyboard game you have continued to play over recent years . . . He calls it an annoying keyboard game but when he says that, he was obscuring the fact that he has difficulty of telling the truth when he was attempting to re-write the history of both NEMT and NFHT, centring on a row about costs in general and when he continues … return both the nemaritimetrust.co.uk website along with its email address to NEMT where they belong” it became clear to me that he wanted to write off NFHT’s contribution to the survival of the restored fishing vessels in its entirety.
For progress, that route continues to be left open for you to use.
That route leads to a website set up by Mr Renwick in opposition to the nemaritimetrust.co.uk in 2022 and please note that it fails to mention any of the fishing vessels that were restored by NEMT with the exception of the Royal Diadem II and also note that she was first restored with the experience gained with the restoration of the much older coble, called Peggy.
No more discussion can take place until that happens.
A threat and I now regret giving him control of the nemaritimetrust.co.uk because he took the opportunity to remove much of its history prior to 2022. Fortunately I caught him before he completed his self appointed task and the some of earliest posts were preserved, the latest of them being one made by the BBC in 2014.
As you know, because of your actions your membership was removed by the board of Trustees along with all access to this organisation.
My membership and access to the NE Maritime Trust was removed because I caught him with his hands in the till, so to speak. Members of the Trust had heard nothing from him for seven years, i.e. until he became aware that Gordon Brown was to leave his estate to both NEMT and NFHT.
I ask you to simply honour that decision. There was no way his decision to split the gift of a pair of Tyneside Flats unfairly between the two trusts was acceptable to who knew the truth behind the way it was done.
Finally, your comments here make it obvious that you don’t have any idea about what NEMT is actually doing. This is a diversion to avoid the truth. Under his control NEMT continued to hide the fact that the division of Gordon’s Legacy was made almost entirely for the benefit of the rebuild of the HFS and there was no way his decision, to split the gift of a pair of Tyneside Flats that was Gordon Brown’s Legacy unfairly between the trusts would have been acceptable to anyone, had he been honest about about it.
Alec Renwick
Mick Dawson
26-Jan-2026
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