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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Why nemaritimetrust.co.uk

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Mick Dawson

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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Golden Gleam – January 2025

Posted on January 25, 2025 by admin

The Coble just inside the NEMT Shed. She lay in the corner of St Peters Marina for a few years, photo mislaid, and it took quite a few years to get her under cover.

She laid well wrapped up at St Peters because NFHT boats were barred from the Wapping St Workshop and Slipway while Chair of NEMT tried to seize control of this website, nemaritimetrust.co.uk, from its owner who had maintained it and its predecessor since about 2008.

Called ‘Broken Promise’ on Facebook, 2022-24.

One will have to ask the current Chair of NEMT, info@nemaritimetrust.org.uk, why he relented in the case of the Golden Gleam while the Rachel Douglas, Favourite and the Sovereign remain excluded from the slipway off Wapping Street, South Shields.

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NEMT and the Coble: Golden Gleam

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Mick Dawson

marinechandlery.com • 10 January 2025
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We’re proud to be supporting the restoration of the historic sailing coble, Golden Gleam, in partnership with Northumbria Fishing Heritage Trust.

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

Golden Gleam gets to the NEMT Workshop in January 2025!
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Golden Gleam, 8-Jan-25

Posted on January 8, 2025 by admin

Better late than never!

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NEMT: ~~ Before and After the Bedford ~~

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Mick Dawson

Her restoration by NEMT began in 2019 and took about two years. She was built by Lancelot Lambert at the Lawe and was launched from the Lawe Building Yard, Dec 21st 1886. Miss Bedford, who lived in the South of England, bequeathed £1,000 to the Lifeboat Society Trustees for the lifeboat to be named Bedford in memory of her brother who was an engineer with the Tyne Improvement Commission.

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Salma’s Dream

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Mick Dawson

About 14 years ago I had heard that the North East Maritime Trust – NEMT, had been asked to think about making boat as a prop for a knitting group for an exhibition in the Customs House in South Shields but while the Trustees showed little interest, one or two of us did.
About a decade before, a friend who had heard that I had moved to South Shields, with the intention of taking up boating again, had persuaded me to buy a coble that was for sale in Hartlepool. I had sailed one with him in Seahouses and was easily persuaded because I thought it would not to difficult to take the ‘Glad Tidings’ back into sail again.

“Dream on” I hear you say but I was told soon after I decided to bring her up from Hartlepool, I heard that she was originally built on spec and named ‘Peggy’ when she was bought from Harrison’s Boat Yard in 1924 and the first time she was repainted I asked for her name to be rewritten as Peggy and that is what she has been called since.

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Northumbrian Coble – Peggy 2

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Mick Dawson

Ownership

It was customary with a coble to put the name of the owner on the port stern quarter and while this was particularly true of those fishing off the Northumberland Coast it appears that with a good many boats to be found in Filey and harbours on the Yorkshire Coast, they followed the same tradition.

About a year or so after Peggy was brought back from Hartlepool she was lifted out and given a coat of paint and while I was confident burning off the old paint and repainting her I was no use at sign writing. She was called the Glad Tidings and I had been told that she was called Peggy by the first owners so she was renamed to avoid confusion with all the other vessels named Glad Tidings to be found in the North East. Her home port written as South Shields and the owner as myself:-

When we came to give her, her home port, Paul Robinson who was doing the signwriting for me, remembered that he had not long before put BK7 on the side of a similar coble and as I had a Port of Tyne registration number for her of 479, I asked him to put that on, that rather than that of Berwick, so that anyone who needed to know could check with them that Peggy had not been put back into use as a commercial fishing boat.

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Northumbrian Coble – Peggy 1

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Mick Dawson

Offsets

When I said one sunny afternoon, my son and I with the aid of his girlfriend took Peggy’s lines, it was not strictly true. What we did, was to take a series of offsets at five stations, one at the centre of her waterline and others spaced evenly fore and aft. These were enough to reproduce her lines on a drawing of about a metre in length and a width of 22cm from the list of offsets which had been transcribed from the girl friend’s notes to my pocket book.

I was asked, a day or so ago, for the offsets by someone who is interested building a copy of this historic vessel, she was a hundred years old this year and sadly it appears that the list of offsets was discarded once the drawing was complete.

We know that Peggy had a beam of 2.38m and that was reproduced in a drawing of width 0.22m so the offsets can found again because the horizontal and the vertical have the same scale and they can be recalculated for nine stations that were on that drawing because the first and last sections are located on the waterline.

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NFHT – Raison D’etre

Posted on December 5, 2024 by admin

Put simply, the Northumbria Fishing Heritage Trust was set up to look after the assets such as the fishing vessels that have been rescued by people who are mostly members of the North East Maritime Trust and occasionally by those who shared a similar interest. Originally the NFHT was set up so that their vessels would not be sold off, or lost to other interests, should the North East Maritime Trust happen to lose its Charitable Status.

As late as August 2021 the Chair of NEMT was still speaking well of:- the Northumbria Fishing Heritage Trust when he published in the Newsletter:-

Organised by our partner organisation NFHT.
NEMT Members have been invited to take part in a trip to the Anstruther Harbour Festival 1st weekend in September with boats Favourite, Rachel Douglas and Henry Frederick Swan in attendance. So here’s wishing them all a great and safe trip both ways, with fair winds in fact.
Our next newsletter will describe how the Anstruther event and trip went!

The next newsletter failed completely to mention any of the activities of its partner as its Author appeared to be more interested in publishing misinformation about the former partner of NEMT.

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