Mary Rose
The Mary Rose was a ship which belonged to Henry VIII of England. She sank in 1545 in battle with a French fleet.
In 1979, the Mary Rose Trust was formed. In 1982 the Mary Rose Trust managed to get the Mary Rose out of the sea. In 1994, they started to preserve her.
The remains of the Mary Rose are currently in Portsmouth, England with the HMS Victory and HMS Warrior.
Sinking
It is not known the exact reason for the sinking. One of the theories is that she had the gun ports open to fire at the French. She then turned to fire at the other side, but the men on board failed to close the gun ports. Sea water got in the open gun ports, which tipped her over and she sank.
The Mary Rose sank because the wind blew and tipped her over.
Mary Rose Media
Portrait of Henry VIII in 1509, the year of his coronation, by Meynnart Wewyck.
The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover, a painting that commemorated King Henry's voyage to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520, painted in 1540. The vessels in the painting are shown decorated with wooden panels similar to those that would have been used on the Mary Rose on special occasions.
The Tudor period carrack Mary Rose in its specially designed building at the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
A small selection of the many rigging blocks raised from the Mary Rose
An illustration from a French edition of the Froissart Chronicle depicting the Battle of Sluys in 1340. The picture clearly shows how medieval naval tactics focused on close combat fighting and boarding.
Two culverins and two demi-cannons from the Mary Rose on display at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth
A cast bronze culverin (front) and a wrought iron port piece (back), modern reproductions of two of the guns that were on board the Mary Rose when she sank, on display at Fort Nelson near Portsmouth
Vice-Admiral George Carew, who perished with the Mary Rose; contemporary miniature by Hans Holbein the Younger
A contemporary illustration of Germain de Brie's poem Chordigerae navis conflagratio depicting the Cordelière and Regent ablaze after the explosion on board the former
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