The Medusa Trust, a registered charity, exists to preserve HMSMedusa, ML1387, for future generations and use her to provide benefit to the public who can experience what it was like to be on a small naval vessel of WW2.
As well as the vessel we maintain an extensive archive of documents, photographs and records of all the 480 HDMLs and their crews. We are always keen to receive new material and records of experiences on these vessels.
Medusa is recognised as being one of the 58 vessels selected to represent the nation's maritime heritage by her inclusion in the "Core Collection" list.
Medusa is operated and maintained by volunteers and funded entirely by donations.
Medusa is towards the end of a major refit mainly funded by The Heritage Lottery. She is ashore at Hythe being worked on by shipwrights from The Maritime Workshop and a number of young trainees, as well as the volunteers from The Medusa Support Group. She is due to be back in the water March 2010..
Medusa Trust Contacts:
Alan Watson, Pine House, 59 Merdon Avenue, Chandlers Ford, Hants SO53 1GD, Tel 07836 364960
E mail alan@trinitystar.co.uk
Mike Boyce, The Priory, Old Hill, Portland, Dorset DT5 1LQ, Tel 01305 823500
E mail mike@mlmedusa.plus.com
Copyright. This site is copyright of The Medusa Trust. Please do not reproduce large sections without our permission. We have tried to attribute photographs and material wherever possible and it is not our intention to infringe the copyright of others. If we have done so unknowingly, please notify us and we will gladly attribute correctly but regret we are not in a position to pay royalties for the use of material.
The Medusa Trust is a Company Limited by Guarrantee, company number 4550179 registered in Cardiff.
Registered Office, The Priory, Old Hill, Portland, Dorset, DT5 1LQ. Charity no 1133706
Latest News...March 1 2010
Medusa is back in the water. At 1030 on 1 March she ran down the slip and floated for the first time in four years. She came off the slip under her own power and made the short passge up the Itchen to Saxon Wharf where she will be until the end of March.
A small ceremony was held at saxon Wharf to thank all those who had helped to make this moment possible including the volunteers, shipwrights, contractors and Hampshire Fire Brigade whose efforts saved the vessel two years ago when the boatyard caught fire.
