Peter W on February 25th, 2010

Shemaron is undergoing some attention to her undersides at Clydebank.
A range of work has been done over the last few months including minor re-caulking, some re-nailing, attention to rubbing strips etc. The opportunity has been taken to carry out a detailed professional survey and there were no shocks when the report was received, so she [...]

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Peter W on February 25th, 2010

Rachel Douglas spent the start of the year in Fred Crowell’s boatshed undergoing a spruce-up.
She has been rubbed down and given a full external repaint. Whilst in Fred’s the opportunity was taken to make good a length of suspect rubbing strake, the inwyvers were replaced and a number of other minor repairs undertaken.
She is back [...]

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Dave A Parker on February 14th, 2010

Thanks to the National Heritage Lottery Fund the restoration of the Royal Diadem II was able to commence in February 2009.
Our aim has been to illustrate and conserve the standard vessel of the North East fishing in the middle of the 19thcent. The boats’ gear, method of operation and total lifestyle. We are delighted with the standard [...]

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kippa on February 12th, 2010

South Shields Gazette Article
from the 11th Feb 2010.

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admin on January 1st, 2010

Coat for a Boat

Not quite traditional but definitely a wooden boat. This snap of her was taken when we took her in bits along to the Customs House on April 4th to show the Coat for a Boat Knitters the progress we had made. It also served to give the boat builders confidence in [...]

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kippa on November 5th, 2009

Members of NEMT have purchased Sovereign, which until February was the UK’s oldest working fishing boat. She was built in 1936 by Nobles of Fraserburgh and has been little altered since. Latterly she has been in the care of Keith Alexander who fished with her out of North Shields. Sovereign is a classic motor fishing [...]

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admin on January 24th, 2009

Historic Vessels visit Seahouses

NEMT Crews took the old ringer/seiner Rachel Douglas and the seiner Favourite up to this year’s Seahouses Festival in June. The boats were joined by locally based sailing coble Golden Gleam to remind visitors of the local fleet as it was sixty years ago. Whilst at Seahouses there were trips to the [...]

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admin on September 4th, 2008

A Coble Restored

Old Northumbrian sailing coble “Peggy” has just been re-launched after extensive restoration work by Fred Crowell, Tyneside’s last wooden boatbuilder. Fred has been rebuilding the vessel over the last three months in his workshop next door to the North East Maritime Trust in Wapping Street, South Shields. The 80 year old boat was [...]

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admin on July 21st, 2008

HANDY MEN … the restoration team, from left, Ted Smith, Peter Weightman, Gordon Brown, Abiy Shiberu Zegeye and Fred Crowell

ETHIOPIAN Abiy Shiberu Zegeye may be a long way from home but he’s found real friends among a group of maritime enthusiasts in South Tyneside.  Since becoming a Friend of the North East Maritime Trust (NEMT) [...]

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admin on July 21st, 2008

The saving of the Lifeboat Henry Frederick Swan
WOODEN vessels, from collier brigs to pilot cobles, used to be the work horses of the Tyne. But over the years they have dwindled to almost nothing on the river.?But now a new South Tyneside-based group has committed itself to restoring what it believes is the neglected maritime [...]

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