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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 

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.

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Yours sincerely

The Dispute Resolution Service Team

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

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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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.

He wrote the 18th June 2024:-

Dear All
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.

Mr Dawson had not stolen nemaritimetrust.co.uk, he had simply moved it to IONOS, to stop Mr Renwick posting more misinformation to the website with the provider, TSOHost. While NEMT may have been paying for it they did not own it. It had in fact been owned by Mr Dawson since 2010 and registered to him with Nominet since 2014 for ten years.

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with a commentary by the website administrator.

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

Dear All

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. ¹ damage both NFHT and NEMT organisations.
I have tried to speak to Mick recently, only to be told “I should know why” ²
Well, I don’t!

1 – a complex lie, the site was secure and therefore not unlocked and belonged to Mr Dawson not to Mr Renwick nor any other NEMT Trustee;
2 – when he asked to speak with me, he was simply told to write and when he asked ‘why’ he was ignored because I needed him to put any accusations in writing and we now have a written record of what he wanted a word about;

One reason I can only imagine, is that in an attempt to make NEMT more sustainable
This recently reestablished Website naming NFHT as a victim ³, is being used by Mick as a means of negative, damaging communication about NEMT, its Trustees and myself.

3 – NEMT were accused of withholding funds from NFHT in early 2023,
justly as it turned out, because they were promptly paid following the
accusation;

Continuing with this senseless, costly, illegal practice ⁴ will only continue to by increasing costs for the use of our facilities, NFHT appears to have taken this as a threat to its existence.
Following a long series of objectionable email messaging and subsequent threats therein haven’t helped to improve this situation, but have simply made matters much worse. ⁵

4 – illegal practice? It was not Mr Dawson who told the original provider of nemaritimetrust.co.uk that he was not a member of that trust but the Chairman, Mr Alec Renwick.

5 – a lie, there is not even one objectionable email and definitely no threats.

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. ⁶
Unfortunately until that happens NEMT will not be in a position to discuss any future NFHT Collaboration or plan vessel repairs on these premises. ⁷

6 – there could never be a satisfactory conclusion. When the owner of the NEMT website, Mick Dawson, moved back to Amble from Tyneside in 2017 he thought it made sense to hand the bulk of editorial control to its Chair but he soon became aware many of the activities both NEMT and NFHT from 2011 had simply disappeared and as a caution removed all editorial rights from the Chair, Mr A Renwick.

He managed to take absolute control of the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk in the Spring of 2024 by giving misinformation to the site’s provider, TSOHost and then even more of the history of the two Trusts went missing, only to confirm Mr Dawson’s earlier belief that the rewrite of the history of the Trusts by Mr Renwick was not a mistake.

7 – it appears that from June 2024 the vessels previously restored by the NEMT membership and now cared for by the NFHT will have no longer have any access to the only suitable slipway on the North East Coast of England for any sort of maintenance.

Alec Renwick. NEMT Trustee and Chair.

On the 18th June 2024 the gulf between the two Trusts widened with a contribution by David Parker.