"The Sinking of the Tudor Warship Mary Rose" Topic
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Tango01  | 23 Jun 2025 5:10 p.m. PST |
"Constructed early in the reign of King Henry VIII, the Mary Rose was highly prized as the jewel of the English fleet until its disastrous sinking in 1545. For centuries thereafter, the once-great Tudor warship lay undiscovered on the seabed, with its story seemingly consigned to the history books, only to make a spectacular return to the spotlight in the modern era. Work on two state-of-the-art warships began at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1510, soon after Henry VIII's accession to the throne, as part of a scheme to create the first permanent English navy. Even though the dockyard's facilities had recently been upgraded, the construction of the 600-ton Mary Rose still represented a major undertaking. From the start it was intended to be larger and more ambitious in scale than its counterpart, Peter Pomegranate…"
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