NEMT: Misinformation from 18-Jun-24

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Mick Dawson

On June 18th 2024 the Chair of the North East Maritime Trust wrote to myself, Dave Parker, the three Trustees of the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust and the three Trustees of trust of which he was the Chair. I responded later that day with an email to the Chair of the NFHT explaining why he should not respond to it and concluded:-

“Two things, firstly his use of nemaritimetrust.org.uk in the second email to me and that the email to you this morning was also from .org.uk., and secondly that Mr Barnard is missing from Alec’s list.
I think Mr Barnard has been advised by someone in the RNLI or maybe his former boss in the Police Force to put as much distance between himself and Alec as possible.

Mr Barnard had been a trustee NEMT for a few years and I’d like to point out before I continue with my criticism of his accusation, that neither Mr Parker nor myself were trustees of either Trust when Mr Renwick accused me for the second time of having stolen the Website nemaritimetrust.co.uk.

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Review of Events in Early ’24.

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Mick Dawson

From: Alec Renwick <alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk>
Sent: 18 June 2024 00:09
To: Peter W; Mick Dawson; Branson, Richard; PAUL; David Parker
Cc: Kevin Lund <kevin.lund@nemaritimetrust.org.uk>; Dr Griffiths, Sue
Subject: NEMT Website

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Misrepresentation by NEMT’s Chair

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Mick Dawson


Mr Renwick, the Chairman of NEMT gained total control of nemaritimetrust.co.uk by the simple deceit of persuading an agent for the Website Provider, TSOHost, in early 2024, to make him its administrator, while at the same time denying its owner, myself, access. The site that had been run by me on behalf of NEMT without complaint for over a decade.

When I discovered that Mr Renwick had changed the site from publishing details of what NEMT had achieved in restoring various vessels for nearly two decades, by adding a post that more resembled the likes of one that could be found on various Social Media platforms such as the one called X, I contacted TSOHost with a view to having the control of my site returned to me but but failed.

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NEMTnews@NEMTnews

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Mick Dawson

Resides on X as https://x.com/NEMTnews

This is a rewrite of the commentary on ‘NEMT News’, first first posted on December 1st, 2023. It was about the misinformation being produced by the Chairman of NEMT to hide the fact that under his direction the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk had almost been lost:-

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Mr Renwick – a customer of nemaritimetrust.co.uk?

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Mick Dawson

I think not!

This post began as a letter to Peter Weightman, Chair of the time NFHT but not sent when I decided broadcast it as a post rather than send it as private email and it has been edited to get rid of the waffle and get to the point. The letter had started:-

I hope you are keeping well and have time to copy me the notification that NFHT offered to give the Sovereign to a good home. It appeared to be a modified copy of the document about her, held on the current website for the NE Maritime Trust. I had noticed it while I was posting the fact that those in charge of NEMT are attempting to ‘airbrush’ me out of the history of their Trust.

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NEMT History and Airbrushing

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Mick Dawson

In the Significance Statement of the National Maritime Museum, Small Boat Register, says about Peggy, one of the oldest cobles still sailing:-

As a fishing coble she worked long lines, salmon nets and pots for crab and lobster. Upon leaving the fishing industry Peggy was used as a pleasure boat at Hartlepool, before being bought in poor condition by an NFHT enthusiast in 2007. Restoration was undertaken in 2008 at the boatyard then owned by Fred Crowell, at South Shields. Further comprehensive restoration led by Dave Parker was completed in 2017 by NFHT and NEMT volunteers at the same boatyard. Now kept on the river Tyne and in almost original condition she is in the ownership of Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust.

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Recent Newsletters

Posted on May 2, 2025 by admin

Dear All,

On the 21st April, I received an email from the Chair of NEMT, nemaritime2020@gmail.com saying: “Dear member, We hope you have had an enjoyable Easter. Please find the April 2025 newsletter attached as a pdf.

This was somewhat at odds with his previous communication I received from him, which was from a different mailbox, alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk:-

Mr Dawson,
After recent termination of your membership of NEMT; we have since received a £15 payment by standing order.
Therefore, a refund by cheque has been posted using registered delivery today to the address listed in your membership details.

The April 2025 Newsletter announced re the lifeboat Henry Frederick Swan, “Weather permitting, we expect to relaunch at about 13.30 – 14.00 on Saturday 26th April”, and I hoped to catch Mr A Renwick, to ask if it was he who signed the cheque as it was never delivered but more generally, it appears that he is more interested in broadcasting lies about myself than in checking the accuracy of his own records. *

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NFHT and NEMT

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Mick Dawson

When I acquired the Coble, Peggy in 2007, I lived in Greens Place with good views over the river Tyne to North Shields and Tynemouth and it was not long before I joined NEMT but by 2014 I had fallen out of favour, not with NEMT but with South Tyneside Council and decided to settle in Amble. My first attempt failed because I had trouble selling my house in Greens Place.

I had first put it on the market in 2014 but various estate agents had failed me and when I returned to South Shields in 2015, they failed me again so I sold it privately with two of NEMT’s volunteers as witnesses and for that I was extremely grateful because I was then able to afford to make a home in Amble in the late Summer of 2017. It did however, take a legal firm in Newcastle to dot the i’s and cross the t’s and the sale was officially said to have been completed in 2019.

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NEMT v NFHT : 2

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Mick Dawson

From Part 1 of the divide, it would appear that a chairman, Mr A Renwick, of the charity, NEMT, is running it as a private group, and apart from 2 different versions of the NEMT AGM of 2023, that I recieved from another of NFHT’s Trustees for discussion, I have not seen the minutes of any of their AGMs since 2018 apart from the pair associated with the AGM of 2022.

At that meeting it was noted that, NEMT’s close association with the NFHT was referred to with Martin Wilson suggesting a long-term amalgamation might be a good idea but it got no further and it appears that the suggestion that the communications between the boards of trustees and the membership was described as much in need of improvement fell on stony ground as well. The volunteers of the two trusts had been working as one since at least 2015 but it appears that from 2020 that the Trustees were not working to achieve the same aims.

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Claim and Counter Claim

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Mick Dawson

Between the Trustees of NEMT and one of its long standing Members.

At the beginning of 2023 it was becoming clear the Chairman of the North East Maritime Trust with the help of people like Keith Barnard was deliberately withholding monies owing to the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust. One of the tactics employed by them to delay the payment was to accuse me of making slanderous accusations and sending aggressive personal emails but they were lying, found out, and the debt of £13,000 was paid in May 2023.

It took four months to go through the legal wrangles before the debt of £13,000 was paid and I can confirm that I have never recieved an apology from either Mr Renwick or Mr Barnard.

Mr Barnard and Mr Renwick parted company before the failed attempt at a relaunch of the Henry Frederick Swan in 2024

Mick Dawson, 1st March 2025

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