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www.facebook.com/henryfrederick.swan had removed the need to produce the Newsletters completely and that in turn was superseded by a Twitter Account in on July 24th 2020, which introduced itself with – This is the real NEMT.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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DRS26876 – Offer of Mediation

Posted on August 19, 2024 by admin

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

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Misinformation from X (Twitter)

Posted on August 19, 2024 by admin

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.

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Personal Defamatory Attacks

Posted on August 10, 2024 by admin

In 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:-

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