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This sort of notice is given out fairly regularly but it has only just occurred to me as the owner, that it could be put to good use, and that is to challenge the repeated demand by the self appointed Chair of the North East Maritime Trust, that I hand him the ownership of the site: nemaritimetrust.co.uk.
That will not happen because when he had been allowed to add to the website, he betrayed my trust and took the opportunity to delete the posts that mostly referred to the boats that NEMT had restored and made seaworthy and had been handed over to the care of the NFHT.
I suggest that new Trustees of NEMT read Missing Archives1 because subsequent actions by their Chairman have shown that they, the archives, were removed to rewrite the history of both NEMT and the former NFHT2 for the benefit of those who were keen to divert the bulk of the funds donated to both Trusts since 2019, to be used almost exclusively, for the restoration and upkeep of the life boat, the Henry Frederick Swan.
WordPress advised me: daw50nmdj@gmail, about their latest update a few days ago not the Chairman: alec.renwick@gmail.com, because he was not and never has been, apart from a week or so in 2020, responsible for nemaritimetrust.co.uk and it is logic, rather than an opinion that comes up trumps on this view of events.
My challenge to Mr Mr Renwick, is that he changes the policy of misappropriating the funds, from Gordon Brown’s Legacy almost entirely for the maintenance of the lifeboat HFS 3 to one where they are more fairly distributed between all the restored boats and that includes those that are in the care of the charity the Northumbria Fishing Heritage4. That only requires that the income derived Gordon’s legacy be shared equally between between the two Trusts: NEMT and NFH, at least half each, for the time being.
Mick Dawson
Revised: 1st March 2026
1 the missing archives are about the restoration by NEMT of the boats, Rachel Douglas, Favourite and Sovereign plus the cobles, Royal Diadem and Peggy.
2 NFHT was set up by some the NEMT members, to look after the boats that had been restored and made seaworthy by the NEMT volunteers.
3 Notes on the Legacy References | nemaritimetrust.co.uk
4 NFH replaced NFHT during 2024/5.
From: The Maritime Heritage of the North East, 2006. A report by David Parry to the North of England Civic Trust for the North East Historic Environment Forum:
Newcastle, St. Peter’s Basin NZ 275 635
The site of St Peter’s Dock and ship- yards where ocean going sailing ships had been built since 1756. Within walking distance of the City Centre, St Peter’s was one of the first North East docks to be redeveloped, from the 1980s, as a marina and housing complex. Amongst the yachts and motor cruisers there are a few preserved historic boats currently berthed in the marina, including Peter Weightman’s Seahouses fishing boat ‘Rachel Douglas’, beautifully restored at Fred Crowell’s yard and re-launched in June 2006.
In 2011 the Sovereign was put on the Slipway off Wapping Street to be renailed.