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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 Mick Dawson than checking the accuracy of what he was broadcasting. *

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

and not nemaritimetrust.org.uk

‘.co.uk’ or ‘.uk’ mean much the same thing and they are ideal for any business or individual who is solely UK-based and really wants to let people know that they operate within the UK.

‘.org.uk’ is extension designed for ‘organisations’ – which can be a slightly grey area when trying to figure out what exactly defines an ‘organisation’ – but for the purpose of domain extensions it simply means ‘non-profit organisations’ and includes charities.

In 2007 when I was looking for a domain name for the North East Maritime Trust, ‘nemt.org.uk’ was not available because it in use by the North East Mountain Trust which had been going since 1980 but ‘.co.uk’ was and while nemt.co.uk fitted the bill, it had been taken by Alec Renwick who was one of NEMT’s founder members and a combination of events led me to use nemaritimetrust.co.uk for my website without much thought behind the choice between ‘name.co.uk’ and ‘name.org.uk’ having been made.

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