DRS 26876 at workflow.nominet.org.uk

What rights is Mr A Renwick asserting?

Our Rights to This Domain have been removed by Mr Michael Dawson as follows;
The domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk has now been claimed and used by Mr Michael Dawson- (daw50nmdj@hotmail.co.uk) and has a high risk of being used in a way that is likely to endanger deversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in our part of the domain name system.

The domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk was registered in May 2014 by the said Michael Dawson and he gave permission to Mr Renwick to access it in 2020. His editing rights were removed when it was discovered that he had abused his position by removing some of the history of the NFHT. In 2024 Mr Renwick regained access right by giving false information to the then provider, TSOHost and once he gained access used the privilege to remove Mr Dawson from the position as the main administrator which he had held for nearly 10 years and having done that, nemaritimetrust.co.uk was used to disseminate false information about the Trustees of the NFHT.

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HFS Visit to Blyth, 6th July

Very nice comment by the skipper of the yacht Aurelia:

Saturday July 5 my wife and I enjoyed a short trip on the Henry Frederick James on the river Blyth, invited by its crew.
They told us about the history of this lifeboat , detailed what the present engine is like and demonstrated the horn. We are impressed by the effort it must have taken to restore this boat. Impressive too is how this boat must have been operated when it went out to rescue people.
Thank you for a wonderful afternoon!
Wim & Ria Albus
yacht Aurelia

eileannanron@delta.nl

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Gaps in the Archive

Control of the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk was regained by its rightful owner when Nominet was asked to switch the provider from TSOHost to IONOS but the switch left big gaps in the archive:-

  • 2005 – June 2008;
  • 2011 – 2018
  • 2020 – 2024

2005 – June 2008

The North East Maritime Trust had, by June 2008, restored the fishing boats, Rachel Douglas and Favourite and sailed them up the Coast to attend a festival in Seahouses.

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NEMT and its Chairman

It would appear that the Chairman of the North East Maritime Trust, Mr Alec Renwick, had been planning to rewrite its history since 14th October 2022 with a new website, nemaritimetrust.org.uk:-

LOOKUP nemaritimetrust.org.uk
Domain Repository Object Identifier: D_78192392-UK
Lifecycle
Domain Expiry 2024-10-14
Domain last updated 2024-05-14
Domain created 2022-10-14
Registrar
Registrar typically acts as an agent for the registrant to manage the domain at the registry. Registrar Name (ID): Kualo Ltd (ID: KUALO)
Registrar Tel: 0800-138-3235
Registrar Email: sales@kualo.com
Registrar URL: https://www.kualo.co.uk/
Registrar Address: 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, United Kingdom

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NEMT Chair v NEMT Website Owner

How wrong could one be about Mr Renwick. Very early on June the 18th in an email to the Trustees of the NFHT and some members of NEMT,* including Mr Dawson, he reverted to his habit of calling Mr Dawson a thief:-

As you will be aware the previously transferred to NEMT, owned and paid for nemaritimetrust.co.uk Website has been stolen by Mick Dawson who appears to have taken advantage of its unlocked status.damage both NFHT and NEMT organisations. I have tried to speak to Mick recently, only to be told “I should know why”
Well, I don’t!

He had been told by Mr Dawson, when he interrupted a conversation about the damaged slipway with one of the NEMT members to say that he wanted a word, to put what he wanted to say in writing. The reason he was asked to do that was in order to elevate any slander to libel but what is most disturbing is that the Chairman of NEMT concludes his email with a threat:-

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NEMT v NFHT : 3

From: Alec Renwick alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk
Sent: 19 March 2024 21:22
To: Michael Dawson daw50nmdj@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: Re: NEMT v NFHT

Hi Michael
Firstly, I have no record of your membership being paid after October 2021 so it has expired, but I will double check just in case.
1. all he needed to do was to ask NEMT’s Treasurer and she would have told him that my subscription was up to date and was due for renewal in October.

While not an excuse, we haven’t had good service from the cooperative bank and the account has been closed recently via Peter Weightman.
2. irrelevant, my subscription has been paid by standing order to Lloyd Bank PLC for a number of years.
This after repeated notices on our newsletters to that effect and asking any member who currently pays their membership to the cooperative bank to change STO to our Lloyd’s account instead.

Further, collectively taking NEMT matters into your own NFHT hands by sending damaging emails to our members without my knowledge and posting similar dubious content on our website is very dangerous.
3. there were no damaging emails sent from me to any NEMT members and you will not get a straight answer from him if you ask him to produce an example.
Removing me as administrator is simply outrageous and not in keeping with good behaviour by anyone.
4. I took away his administrative privilege because he had used it to delete all the references to the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust and all the posts made to the original site from 2011 to 2019.

As far as the historic coble Golden Gleam is concerned, NEMT has offered to take her into our
workshop on three separate occasions for estimating possible costs involved. That means clearing floors and prep for her arrival each time, but to no avail.
5.similar to 3, I have seen no evidence of NEMT having offered to take Golden Gleam into the workshop before the end of 2024. The offer was made in 2022.
6.when work was completed on the Bedford Lifeboat she was taken into storage in September 2023 and it would not have taken more than a few days to clear a floorspace for the Golden Gleam.

So, we had simply given up and arranged for alternative projects instead, which are going very well actually.
7. One of the alternative projects to construct a modern boat out of marine ply for the Sea Cadets who were based a little way upstream. It was the second make work project to build a boat out of marine ply, the first having been completed some 15 years earlier.

These strained situations have led to stress all around, breakdowns in communication, especially with regard to missed details and arguments regarding poor minute taking and none constructive communication by your secretary, who as you know resigned some time ago, or do you?
8. it was not I, who got the minutes of the November AGM 2022 to be rewritten by Mr Lund because they reflected badly upon himself, it was Mr Renwick, the Chair of NEMT.

I will update you soon with regard to your membership situations.
9. my membership was removed without justification on the 8th of July.

Also don’t forget that the original members who setup NEMT which started early 2000 were Ted Smith, Robert Hunter, David Ash, Myself as Secretary and Peter Weightman as Chair, I don’t remember you ever being involved in its formation.
10. agreed but I was one of its first active members when I paid for the repair and refit of the Coble, Peggy on the slipway off Wapping St. The workshop contained not much more than the Henry Frederic Swan at that time.

My heart is completely connected to NEMT and despite all my previous help with NFHT boat restorations and repairs. These last few years have proved to open my eyes to a devious world I never imagined could exist within such a small dedicated group of like minded people. These details are correct and truthful, ask your NFHT secretary Peter.
11. there is no reccord of him having helped with the restoration of any of the NFHT boat restorations and repairs and the details were neither correct nor truthful:-

1) he did not give any help in restoring any of the vessels restored by the NEMT volunteers in all the years prior to 2019. He was never seen in the slipway shed while it was let by South Tyneside Council to Fred Crowell and even when it became part of the NEMT estate and in March 2016 when the Council extended the lease on both the Workshop and the Slipway Shed to September 43 he showed no interest in any of the vessels being restored until the Henry Frederick Swan was first taken out of the Workshop and put on the slipway on April 19th, 2019.

2) Peter was warned about the sort of lies that were being told behind his back on 20th March 2024.

Alec.
M Dawson
21-Feb-25
Updated 1-Jul-25 

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Dispute Resolution Service – 26876: 29-Jul-24

Dear Mr Michael Dawson,

A Dispute Resolution Service complaint has been made about nemaritimetrust.co.uk

This email/letter is to let you know that North East Maritime Trust is using Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) to complain about your registration or use of nemaritimetrust.co.uk.

DRS communications are sent out electronically as standard, and can be viewed in our online services. A paper copy of this letter has been sent to you by registered post to the address we hold for you on our records.

To view and respond to the complaint, you will need to log into online services at www.nominet.org.uk/go/login. After logging in, click on ‘Dispute Resolution Service.

If you need help accessing online services, please contact us on 0330 236 9476 or email us at drs@nominet.org.uk quoting the DRS reference number at the top of this email/letter.

You do not have to respond to this complaint, but any decision made about your domain name will apply to you even if you do not respond. If you want to respond (and we would encourage you to do so) we must receive the response on or before 19 August 2024.

A copy of the DRS Policy (which explains the general principles of the DRS) will be attached to your email notification. They can also be viewed on our web site or in online services, please read through these to familiarise yourself with the DRS process.

If you have any other questions please visit the UK Domain Disputes section of our web site www.nominet.uk. You can also call us on 0330 236 9476 or email us at drs@nominet.org.uk.

Yours sincerely

The Dispute Resolution Service Team

cc
Alexander Renwick
Fishermens’ Workshop
2/3 Wapping Street
South Shields
Tyne and Wear
NE33 1LQ

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NEMT Chair v Mick Dawson

I discovered on the 15th March 2024, that I was no longer able to log into a website that had addressed the needs of two trusts for a good while, the trusts being the North East Maritime Trust and the Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust. The site was nemaritimetrust.co.uk and it was created by me about the time when members of NEMT began to populate NFHT which was about ten years ago. At that time it was hosted by Daily.co.uk.

Daily.co.uk were taken over by TSOHost and the change was so seamless that it would not be noticed by anyone except the person who had to administer the website, me again, and it took place before the two Trusts were forced apart by unequal division of a legacy in late 2019.

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The Trusts – 2024

NEMT and NFHT

I discovered on the 15th March 2024, that I was no longer able to log into a website that had addressed the needs of two trusts for a good while. It was nemaritimetrust.co.uk and was created by me about the time when members of NEMT began to populate NFHT which was about ten years ago and some information about it was posted on the website which at that time was hosted by daily.co.uk.

Daily.co.uk were taken over by TSOHost and the change was so seamless that it would not be noticed by anyone except the person who had to administer the website, me again, and it took place before the two Trusts were forced apart by unequal division of Gordon’s legacy in late 2019.

While I was no longer in control, I could still view the site and discovered by reading its last post, which was more suited to social media than a sensible website, that I had been replaced as the Administrator of nemaritimetrust.co.uk by the Chairman of the North East Maritime Trust, Mr Alec Renwick.

I also noticed that he had removed the history of the two trusts from 2005 to late 2019 and it was replaced almost exclusively, by the history of the restoration a life boat, the Henry Frederick Swan.

TSOHost could have easily reversed the switch of the editor of nemaritimetrust.co.uk back to me in April but told me that the argument about who owned the domain name should be resolved, between Mr Renwick and myself, before they would act and I decided that the only thing to do to preserve the integrity of nemaritimetrust.co.uk was to switch service providers.

At the height of my dispute about the ownership of the domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk in April 2024, he claimed to have written to Nominet on April 12th that I had stolen the domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk from them:

For the attention of Nominet. After some considerable investigation it is now apparent that our nemaritimetrust.co.uk website has been stolen and transferred to Nominet from our hosting company

If Nominet had responded to the Mr Renwick’s email they would have told him that the domain name, nemaritimetrust.co.uk, did not belong to him but to a Mr M Dawson of Amble and what he did with it was entirely up to him and not anyone else.

A day later, the 13th, he forwarded the email with the claim that I had stolen the domain from NEMT, to the Trustees of NFHT of which I was one, and it was then that I was asked to stand down as one of their Trustees, which I did willingly on the 17th April. I was also asked to remove any links from NEMT to NFHT, not a realistic request, given the circumstances.

The Chairman of NEMT appeared to have dropped the line the website had been stolen in his newsletter of June 5th and replaced it with the lie that the website was offline.

Due to unforeseen circumstances our Website is currently still offline. We apologise if you have been affected by this or for any inconvenience caused. But be assured that we are trying to sort this out, in the meantime please be patient. However, our new Website below will replace and be much better than the original which was very unreliable anyway.
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 Please also note our new email – info@nemaritimetrust.org.uk will soon be available on the website and we hope it will also be much more reliable than before.

When he claimed in his newsletter that ‘our’ website was currently offline he was lying because parts of it had been rescued from the detail found on other sites and been stored in a temporary location, https://theharbourview.co.uk/nemaritmetrust-co-uk/ while the main site was being reconstructed in its new home. By the time that the NEMT newsletter was published in June, nemaritimetrust.co.uk had become established in its new home with IONOS.

Once this horrible little gremlin has been removed is open to interpretation and did not bode well for me as I had already been falsely accused of stealing the domain nemaritimetrust.co.uk. and I could not resist chiding Mr Renwick and wrote on 7th June knowing full well that he had removed most of the history of the two charities from the website for the five years from 2014:

Alec,
Thank you for the sight of the latest Newsletter and this is to let you know that the horrible little gremlin has been removed but he left such a mess behind that it will take me a while to recover nemaritimetrust.co.uk and any help you can give to cover the five years from 2014 to August 2019 would be appreciated.
Cheers
Michael

I had simply removed the horrible little gremlin by transferring the site to IONOS where he was not in charge but it he still did not realise that in calling me for the theft of the website he was hiding the fact that he had gained control of the old site by lying to someone in TSOHost and I thought that would be the end of the row and I could progress peacefully with reconstruction of nemaritimetrust.co.uk but I was wrong.

In email from Mr Renwick on the 18th June to the Trustees of the NFHT and some members of NEMT, including myself he had reverted to calling me a thief:-

As you will be aware the previously transferred to NEMT, owned and paid for nemaritimetrust.co.uk Website has been stolen by Mick Dawson who appears to have taken advantage of its unlocked status.damage both NFHT and NEMT organisations. I have tried to speak to Mick recently, only to be told “I should know why”
Well, I don’t!

He had been told by me, when he interrupted my conversation about the damaged slipway with one of the NEMT members to say he wanted a word and I simply told him to put what he wanted to say in writing. The reason I asked him to put it in writing was in order to elevate any slander to libel but what is most disturbing is that he concludes his email with a threat:-

I simply ask all at NFHT to make Mick Dawson see sense and transfer our nemaritimetrust.co.uk website back to NEMT where it belongs.
As ever, I’m always available to talk in an attempt to end with a satisfactory conclusion. Unfortunatly until that happens NEMT will not be in a position to discuss any future NFHT collaboration or plan vessel repairs on these premises.

What Mr Renwick did not know was that I had resigned my trusteeship of NFHT in April, and it had been accepted, expressly to dissociate the NFHT from any argument about the ownership of the domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk. and also he would not have known that TSOHost had written to me, on the 13th June 2024, advising me about an upgrade of two websites of mine for which they had been providing service and support for many years and they were theharbourview.co.uk and nemaritimetrust.co.uk.

With regard to the latter of the two domains, TSOHost said:

To ensure that your website remains active while you’re making these updates to your DNS records, we will use a proxy to redirect to your new hosting package.

While I’m negotiating with TSOHost about the safest way to view nemaritimetrust.co.uk as it was at the beginning of March 2024, I suggest that the Chairman of NEMT climbs down off his high horse, gives up his quest to steal the domain nemaritimetrust.co.uk from me and talk sensibly to the trustees of the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust about the best way to keep the fleet of vessels lovingly restored by members of both Trusts afloat.

M Dawson
24-Jun-24

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NEMT: X stream

A mysterious post appeared on the stream on June 23rd 2024 at 03:11 pm:-


The ‘previous’ rogue member was none other than Mr Dawson can only conclude that the post of 18th June 2024 and the comments made against it by him that he was the ‘previous, now rogue member’ referred to by post’s author and one should note that when he says ‘our website’ he is claiming ownership of the nemaritimetrust.co.uk, something which has never been his.

In detail:- the so called ‘our website’ is not actually theirs and the so called ‘previous member’ is one of those members who thinks that a Chairman of a Trust should not be calling anyone a rogue with out any evidence to back to back his claim.
Please note that in his post of 18th June he had also called one of the members of NEMT a thief:

As you will be aware the previously transferred to NEMT, owned and paid for nemaritimetrust.co.uk Website has been stolen by Mick Dawson who appears to have taken advantage of its unlocked status.

It was perfectly secure which was why Mr Dawson was no able to log into a site, that he had maintained for well over ten years on, March the 15th 2024.
It was never owned by NEMT but they were happy to pay for it while the views of Mr Dawson did not differ from that of its Trustees but not long after the Mr Alec Renwick accepted the post of Chair of the Trust on 2020 and he was given editorial access to nemaritimetrust.co.uk and the history of Trust from 2005 to 2019 recorded on the Website just vanished.


If one looks up NEMTnews one will see that there were no events between when the North East Maritime Trust was founded in 2005 and when the Twitter account was first set up in 2020.

If one look at the early posts in nemaritimetrust.co.uk which are still available, 2008 to 2010 in the Archive one will see that while they appear dated they are comparable with the more modern Social Media posted from 2015 to 2019 on Facebook than that posted in NEMTnews.

Now compare NEMT with the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust:-

As well as saving and restoring historic working vessels, the Trust takes vessels to events and uses other display opportunities on the Tyne and other places on the east coast. When possible, the public are given access onto the vessels, with detailed guidance being given by members of the Trust and associates. The Trust works in partnership with the North East Maritime Trust.

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