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.
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:-
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 I had been replaced by current Chairman of NEMT and this would not have mattered if our views about both the Trust and its partner, the NFHT, had been consistent but it turned out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.
Nominet say:- With thousands of domain names registered each week, it’s inevitable that some might cause disagreements. We provide an award-winning Dispute Resolution Service (DRS).
The DRS is a fast, efficient way to resolve UK domain name disputes.
Please consider this critique as a continuation of the one began on August 8th:-
A Renwick’s response DRS26876 19-Aug-24.
How do you reply to the response?
For Reference – North East Maritime Trust (NEMT)
Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust (NFHT)
I note that Mr Dawson’s reply contains ten paragraphs which I will respond to as follows -There are 11 or if one includes the last, 12 paragraphs:-
The 12th said:- Paragraph 12: I promise to hold the peace until the 19th
October 2022
In X it was said: “The main workshop is being tidied up and made ready for our new projects arriving soon. First will be our donated vessel Taylor Maid. Next the historic sailing coble Golden Gleam, pictured at 2005 Tall Ships Newcastle.
A broken promise perhaps, it appears that the Golden Gleam is still on the quayside in St Peter’s Marina because the Chair of NEMT, Mr A Renwick, refuses to allow any NFHT vessels, access to the slipway off Wapping St in South Shields.
Continue readingIn a complaint to Nominet about the domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk by the Chair of NEMT he mentions personal defamatory attacks which include malicious and incorrect information which have been made against him and some possibly were but they were not made by the owner of the domain nemaritimetrust.co.uk. In fact the available evidence shows that flow of malicious and incorrect information was in the other direction and particularly against Mr Dawson:-
15-Mar-24, AR to PW: I also notice that Mick Dawson (NFHT) has conspired to scam our website with similar unauthorised data, blocking any input from NEMT.
An attempt to remove his access from our website about two years ago has obviously been circumvented, these actions must be removed immediately.
15-Mar-24, KB to PW: Are you implying that a member of NEMT is responsible for this disgraceful personalised and aggressive attack.
I believe the person in question is in fact a member of NFHT board and has not been a member of NEMT for several years. – Mr Barnard (KB) was referring to Mr Dawson.
17-Mar-24, KB to MD: I note that you are not a member of NEMT but are a director of nfht whom, I assume you speak for. I am an elected member of NEMT and was elected by the membership because they wished me to take that position. It’s called democracy.
The reason you have not seen the minutes is because you are not a member, just thought I would clear that question up for you.
One can only assume that Mr Barnard was told I was not a member of NEMT by Mr Renwick but he does not apologise until the 26th:-
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
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 and we now have a written record of what he wanted a word about.
29 July 2024
Dear Sir or Madam
Thank you for the copy of the dispute raised by Mr A Renwick of Fisherman’s Workshop, Wapping St, South Shields and the covering letter giving instructions on how to deal with his request/demand that you transfer the domain nemaritimetrust.co.uk to a different service provider from the one where it is currently administered. Please treat this letter as my response.
The domain had been registered with Nominet under my name for over ten years and as the registration was about to expire, 22nd May, I had to act quickly to counter Mr Renwick’s false claim that the domain had been transferred to him when I gave him access to the website of the same name in October 2020.
I soon discovered that he had deleted most of the history North East Maritime Trust from the time that NEMT gained its charitable status in February 2007 until late 2019 and revoked his permission to prevent him from making any further amendments to a site that had, until October 2020, reflected the history, not only of NEMT but that of the Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust as well.
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.
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