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On the 21st April, I received an email from the North East Maritime Trust, nemaritime2020 at gmail.com saying: “Dear member, We hope you have had an enjoyable Easter. Please find the April 2025 newsletter attached as a pdf.
I wondered why I was still on the mailing list as the last communication, I received from the Trust’s Chair, was to make a refund and that was from a different mailbox, alec.renwick at nemaritimetrust.org.uk:-
Mr Dawson,
After recent termination of your membership of NEMT; we have since received a £15 payment by standing order.
Therefore, a refund by cheque has been posted using registered delivery today to the address listed in your membership details.
The April 2025 Newsletter announced re the lifeboat Henry Frederick Swan, “Weather permitting, we expect to relaunch at about 13.30 – 14.00 on Saturday 26th April”, and I hoped to catch Mr A Renwick, to ask if it was he who signed the cheque as it was never delivered but more generally, it appears that he is more interested in broadcasting lies about myself than in checking the accuracy of his own records. *
Headline News – As you may know, our original website has been hijacked by a former member and is being used to disseminate incorrect information sometimes bordering on slander.
This member left under a cloud of rancour and suspicion many years ago and his membership was rescinded.
Our new official website can be found using the following link: www.nemaritimetrust.org.uk.
The original website of which he spoke was created, not by him but me in 2007, It was not registered with Nominet until the 22nd May, 2014 and was due for renewal in May 2024 and logic if nothing else, suggests that he was being economical with the truth when, first of all he claimed its ownership on NEMT’s behalf by saying ‘our original website’ and secondly by saying it had been ‘hijacked by a former member’.
In reality, the reverse happened and I would call it misappropriation rather than a hijack because the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk has never been his but he managed to gain total control of it in early 2024 by giving misinformation to the provider TSOHost and while I will never get to know what he actually told them, I believe that he told one of their agents that I was no longer a member of NEMT and that the website was no longer mine as its ownership had been handed to him in 2020.
It had not. I had only given him editorial rights to nemaritimetrust.co.uk so that he could add to it as he saw fit but I had to remove those rights when I saw that he had betrayed my trust in him by deleting much of the history of the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust from 2011 to 2019. In combining two lies, that it was NEMT’s site and that it had been stolen by me, he was committing the equivalent of a fraudulent misrepresentation of what had happened in 2020 to gain total control of nemaritimetrust.co.uk in 2024.
By February 2024 it was becoming apparent that under his Chairmanship, NEMT was not doing what was needed to maintain vessels in their care, i.e. to put and then keep them in a seaworthy condition but to the make a vessel’s ownership the major issue. To highlight some of the misinformation given out in that email which was copied to six others I will just point to his comment about one of the first cobles to be put back into sail:-
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It was soon after the Chairman of NEMT posted his opinion of the Trustees of the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust on offered to resign his Trusteeship the NFHT and it was gratefully was accepted which left this ex-Trustee free to comment appropiately on the conduct of NEMT’s Chair.
Re resignation letter:- a look-up on nfht.co.uk will reveal that the site no longer has any content and therefore contains no references to either NEMT or NFHT.