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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A Secret Meeting?

Posted on December 2, 2024 by admin

With reference to the forwarded email of the 13th November from Mr Renwick, please see below and note that it has not been answered and it is two and a half weeks since it was sent and it can be confirmed that I have not received a registered delivery since I received the email of that date. It is also highly likely that Mr Renwick will know my address in Amble as it was known to Martin Wilson over 5 years ago when he wrote to me as the treasurer of NFHT.

The decision to remove me from the membership of NEMT was taken at what seems to be a secret meeting of a very select few on the 30th April and it is reasonable to assume that Mr Wilson’s membership was taken away by a similar process five years ago. Apart from Mr Renwick himself, the attendees were Mr Lund, the NEMT treasurer, Dr Sue Griffiths and possibly Mr Barnard.

I say possibly Mr Barnard because I was not informed of their decision until the 7th July or seven weeks after the meeting:-

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Fifty Thousand Views

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Mick Dawson

– in seven months for the reborn website. The original which had about 800,000 in ten years had to be put down, like a very poorly pet that had developed a malignant growth which could not be contained and one does not have to look very far back through the current set of posts to get some idea of what I mean. To celebrate, here is a picture of the NFHT Fleet from the days when nemaritimetrust.co.uk was first born.

The ‘Fleet’ – Rachel Douglas, Favourite, Sovereign and the cobles Peggy and Royal Diadem. This was posted around mid day 27-Nov-24 and the following comment made:-

The comparison is not really fair because I believe the events and progress being made by both the Trusts began to be published in Social Media, Facebook in 2015 and Twitter in 2019, with only the occasional reference being made on the original site.

The addition made on the 28th:-

What might be more relevant is the fact that 60% of the recent views are from abroad. This was gleaned from the folk who run Post View Counter, whom I think, wish me to rent a professional version.

I had noticed that a month or so back that the Post: Cygnet in Storage, had at over 10,000 views attracted for more views than any other post and thought to check again early this morning if this was still so. It is not, as of 06:00 on the morning of the 28th, the top three are:-

Consider Urgent 118,473
NEMT Latest: 16-Mar-2415,303
Cygnet in Storage10,706

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The domain – nemaritimetrust.co.uk

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Mick Dawson

Email to the Chair of the North East Maritime Trust – copied to the Trustees of the Charity set up to take care of the vessels restored/repaired by them and any other relevant assets, acquired over the last twenty years:-

From: Michael Dawson
Sent: 16 November 2024 08:42
To: nemaritime2020@gmail.com
Cc: Sue Griffiths; nfht.co.uk to the provider TSOHost and this has reminded me that I had to move nemaritimetrust.co.uk from them to another provider to counter the misinformation that you were broadcasting on it. Your last post, if you care to remember was:-

Unfortunately our site has been almost destroyed by scamming, but we are trying to sort it out.
As you can see, certain nasty Trustees of Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust (NFHT) have deleted some of our precious content. Pathetic, isn’t it!
However, this disgraceful act has pointed NEMT in the direction of rebuilding our now outdated website, which we hope will soon be active.
Thank you for your patience.

May I remind you that I had been excluded from the administration of nemaritimetrust.co.uk, by your actions, for some time prior to mid-March and would not have been able to make any deletions, while the content referring to NFHT was being deleted.

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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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Nemaritimetrust.org.uk

Posted on November 7, 2024 by admin

LOOKUP nemaritimetrust.org.uk – Updated 7th November 2024

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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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