The Row about this Website

Posted on November 14, 2024 by admin

On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, 09:39, I wrote:

Hi Alec,
Apologies for not getting back a day or so. While Tim L was treasurer, I was happy to pay for a website presence but when I moved away and the provider was taken over by TSO, I made an arrangement with Paul to regularise the payment for the site, nemaritimetrust.co.uk (NEMT) and I continued to run it. There is not very much we can do with Daily.co.uk Linux Home Pro – nemaritimetrust.co.uk and I was busy transferring when the row broke out so I never completed it.

The row was about editing the website: nemaritimetrust.co.uk, in which the history of the North East Maritime Trust or NEMT, had been written to the website by me for about six years, and in particular the removal of most of the posts and pages that referred especially to its partner, the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust or NFHT.

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NEMT.org.uk

Posted on November 7, 2024 by admin

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BOAT IS RESTORED TO FORMER GLORY

Posted on October 31, 2024 by admin

Conservation enthusiasts finish their first project
By JAYNE OLIVER
A GROUP of maritime enthusiasts has just finished restoring its first old boat to its former glory.

And it’ll be riding the crest of a wave next month when the Royal Diadem II returns to the
Tyne.
Over the last year, 20 volunteers from the South Shields-based North East Maritime Trust have been working on the restoration of the old Northumbrian sailing coble.
And thanks to a £9,400 National Lottery Heritage grant, the group has succeeded in making the 29ft vessel shipshape once again.
It’s the first project the trust, based in Wapping Street in South Shields, has completed since it formed five years ago.
Now it hope more volunteers will join up as it seeks to give further old boats a new lease of life.
Trust director David Parker said: “It is important that we use the opportunity of a vessel in the workshop to fully understand and pass on the history and associated boatbuilding skills required for each vessel.
“It has been a wonderful experience to get so much enthusiasm and interest from so many visitors, some of whom signed up and began working with us straight away after seeing this fascinating project.
“We thank all of those that have visited the workshop for their enthusiasm and support for this project
“There will be fresh opportunities for members of the North East Maritime Trust to taste the sailing experience of such a vessel.
“There will always be restoration projects ongoing at the workshops, and everyone is welcome to join in.
“We need people with little or no woodworking skills to get involved.
THE END IS NIGH … North East Maritime Trust volunteers putting the finishing touches to their National Lottery-funded coble restoration project. (IRN 497410)
“The only requirement is enthusiasm and passion for our maritime heritage.”
All the Royal Diadem II, built in 1948 by Harrison’s of Amble, needs before returning to the water is a fresh paint job, with sponsorship for the work already secured from International Paints.
Mr Parker added: “We have been able to show people the lifestyle and fishing history of this coast, and to contribute to saving our maritime history by keeping alive the woodworking skills required to build and maintain this unique style of vessel.
“Volunteers have been able to revive and learn traditional skills which are rapidly disappearing.
“Our sincere thanks go to Fred Crowell, the last wooden boat builder and repairer on the river, for his help, expertise and everlasting patience, and also to international Paints.”
Among the other craft the trust is restoring are the Henry Frederick Swan, a former Tyneside lifeboat, and Spring Tide, a 16ft fishing boat from Whitburn.

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NEMT NewsLetters

Posted on October 31, 2024 by admin

Newsletters had been produced from the very early days of NEMT but it was not until 2007 that some of us including myself thought to store them as pages on the ‘Web’, the cost and effort of producing and circulating copies having become prohibitive a few years earlier.

The Newsletter may have been produced in the following years but I was more interested in other things until 2009 when NEMT received a commission to provide a coble like boat for the Customs House project ‘A Coat for a Boat’. It turned out very well bout those in charge of the administration of the NEMT ‘Project’ have been content fot it to remain much in the background.

It appears that by the end of 2015 the Facebook site, www.facebook.com/henryfrederick.swan had removed the need to produce the Newsletters completely and that in turn was superseded by a Twitter Account in on July 24th 2020, which introduced itself with – This is the real NEMT. Accept no other.

This rather implies that this Website is perhaps unreal and unacceptable and I beg to differ.

Mick Dawson
All Hallows Eve, 2024

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Fair winds and Following Seas

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Mick Dawson

Dear Member
Please find our Summer Newsletter attached for your perusal.
We wish you all Fair Winds and Following Seas.

When Alec Renwick wrote this on the 5th June 2024 under the subject of the NEMT NEWSLETTER he did not wish one of the members well. In one of the opening paragraphs he had as good as accused the owner of the Website nemaritimetrust.co.uk of misconduct when he said:

Once this horrible little gremlin has been removed we hope to be back on-line very soon with our new improved Website address as follows – www.nemaritimetrust.org.uk.

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RD II and Masts

Posted on October 20, 2024 by admin

Royal Diadem being sailed off Tynemouth by NFHT and NEMT members Gordon Brown and Mick Dawson


2010 Outside the Workshop on a cold November Day – 28th in 2010. She was the second coble on the Tyne to be fitted with a mast by NEMT. The mast for Peggy was made some years earlier – please see the photograph at the foot of this post. The first thing to notice is that the mast is not stayed and it is raked well aft.

The masts for both cobles were made from telegraph poles by Fred Crowell when he used to run the only slipway suitable in the North East of England for the restoration of such vessels.

The photos of Fred at work are from 2007 and he appears to be working on masts and boom for the seine netters Rachel Douglas and Favourite. * After reducing the width of the poles using a saw to give them a sqare section, he used a draw knife to make them round again.


The masts in cobles were set forward to give a less cluttered space in the working area when fishing and had to have a lot of rake so that the mainsail set more towards to the centre when sailing.

* The mast for Peggy was made about the same time as one for Royal Diadem II and both after the spars for Rachel Douglas and the Favourite were made.

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Cygnet – in Storage

Posted on October 5, 2024 by admin

There is now a page describing some of the how and whys of her existence and it is sad that there is no mention of her in any posts after September 2019 in any public streams in use by NEMT under their current management.

Posted on September 5, 2019 – “Not be long now, engine box and thwarts nearly done. Foredeck next, these guys are doing a fantastic job on the Cygnet”

The were no more posts for Cygnet in the Face Book stream from which this post was taken but there were posts made from 2020 onwards, in a new stream were she can be seen in the background, and looks to be completed and on a trailer. Access to that steam has recently been restricted for some reason and it appears that she is now in storage.

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The Story of the Henry Frederick Swan

Posted on October 1, 2024 by admin

In March 2015, the North East Maritime Trust, having already researched the rescues carried out by the lifeboat, launched a project to find out about the men who formed her crew, with an appeal to relatives or anyone with connections with former crew who, through their own family history research, may have archive material, press cuttings, photographs or stories about their relatives, that can all be brought together to tell the full story of the Henry Frederick Swan.

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Missing Archives

Posted on September 12, 2024 by Mick Dawson

Before the provider for nemaritimetrust.co.uk was switched from TSOHost to IONOS in April 2024 the archives from the old site were copied so that they could be loaded into the new site and the first thing to notice was that the 8 years from 2011 were missing as one can see from detail taken the Home Page:-

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Five Months On

Posted on September 7, 2024 by admin

Yesterday the number of views to this site, nemaritimetrust.co.uk, passed 25,000 which compares reasonably well with the old site’s of 826,000 in the ten years of its existence. The nemaritimetrust site was temporarily taken down after it had become corrupted earlier this year and is now with a different provider.

Corrupted by accident, maybe, but the evidence shows otherwise. When I was locked out of the administration of this site, I naturally contacted TSOHost to whom it had been registered for a number of years and discovered the reason why. I had been replaced by current Chairman of NEMT and this would not have mattered if our views about both the Trust and its partner, the NFHT, had been consistent but it turned out that they more than inconsistent, they were somewhat contradictory.

Making this post ‘sticky’ became impractical and so it has been converted to a page.

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