The Legacy

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Mick Dawson

In 2016 a pair of flats in the Heaton/Jesmond area of Newcastle were bequeathed and to be shared equally between both NEMT and NFHT, by Gordon Brown who passed away in May that year. At that time the pair would have fetched something around £150k if they were both in a good state of repair but it seems that they were not and one had to be sold to pay for the cost of renovating the pair of them.1
I was the secretary of NFHT at that time and received an email, from the secretary of NEMT, dated 22nd May 2018, saying:

Mick,
Please find the attached letter of intent from the NEMT board. with Gordon Brown’s bequest of the flats at Dinsdale Road.
I hope that you find it useful.
Best regards
Jerry

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NEMT: Posts, Jan 2025 to date …

Posted on July 4, 2025 by admin
  1. marinechandlery.com . Follow
    10 January 2025

    We’re proud to be supporting the restoration of the historic sailing coble, Golden Gleam, in partnership with Northumbria Fishing Heritage.
    This incredible project is now underway at the NEMT workshop in South Shields, Wapping Street, where work has already begun on stripping back layers of paint to reveal the challenges ahead.
    We’re excited to supply materials and follow the progress of this important restoration, preserving the legacy of our region’s rich maritime history.

    Stay tuned as we share updates on this fantastic project.

    North East Maritime Trust

    GoldenGleamRestoration #NorthumbriaFishingHeritage #MarineChandlery #MaritimeHistory
    BoatRestoration #UKboating #uksailing

  2. February – Golden Gleam
  3. April – Henry Frederick Swan

    Great weather over the weekend (26th April) enabled the safe relaunching of our historic Tynemouth lifeboat, Henry Frederick Swan. A great trip to our Newcastle NE1, Quayside Moorings, was delightful. Great crew on a great little ship.

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

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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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