Here we present the NEMT Collection.
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The vessels detailed are those belonging to the Trust and associated vessels. “Associated Vessels” are members’ boats, boats whose owners have pledged that they will do their best to manage the restoration and preservation [...]
Royal Diadem II is a general purpose motor coble with auxiliary sail. Briefly her history is:
Built by Harrison’s of Amble in 1948.
First owners William and Albert Silk.
First port Newton by the Sea, then Craster (same owners).
Sold to Boulmer where the owner was William Ralph Wood. The boat may have also been owned by James Carse [...]
Golden Gleam was built in 1948 by Ralph Dawson of Seahouses, Northumberland, for a fisherman called Main Downey who lived in Boulmer.
The boat was a Northumbrian coble, 29 feet long, powered by a (secondhand?) BMC car engine, adapted for marine use. The vessel had a mast and auxiliary sail. She was one of the earliest [...]
This is the former Tynemouth lifeboat, built in 1917. She was on duty from 1918 t0 1939 after which she was in the reserve fleet. In 1941 there was a disastrous bombing of the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station and Henry Frederick Swan returned to replace the bombed vessel until final withdrawal in 1947. In 1948 she [...]
The fishing vessel “Rachel Douglas” was built in 1947 for Jackie Baxter-Douglas and his brother Thom. They named her after their mother.
The Baxter-Douglases lived and worked at the north Northumbrian village of Seahouses and they had a vessel in need of replacement. New fishing boats were in great demand after the war but engines were [...]
Peggy was built by Harrisons of Amble in 1924 for stock but soon found a buyer, one of the Hall family of Beadnell. She was sold to Robert Rutter of Seahouses and at that time carried the number BK7. Later she moved to Amble and became Glad Tidings BH177. Her last port was Hartlepool, from [...]
Favourite was formerly a seine net fishing boat, built in 1947 by Walter Reekie at St Monance in Fife.
She started her working life at Castletown, Isle of Man, in the hands of Jackie Maddrell and his sons; she was then known as “Margaret Anna” and carried the number CT101. The stay on the island was [...]
The Mary Young is a typical salmon coble of the middle twentieth century.
She was built in the 1970s by Harrison’s of Amble for a fisherman working from Amble harbour. Her earlier name was Acclaim. It appears she was never registered on the fishing boat register as boats used for salmon fishing did not need to [...]
This was built during the early part of 2009 for the Customs House “Coat for a boat Project”. Picture shows the hull about half way through being paneled. The were 40 panels in the completed boat which was made in 4 sections so that she could go upstairs in the exhibition room. Once installed there she [...]
Shemaron was built as a herring ring netter in 1949 by Weatherhead of Cockenzie. At the time she was considered a large fishing vessel, having an overall length of 55.75 feet.
Her original identity was Wisteria BA64. Until the early 1960s she was a regular visitor to the North East when she worked out of Seahouses [...]