Key facts
- Name
- Mary Rose
- Namesake
- Mary Tudor, Queen of France and/or the Virgin Mary
- Laid down
- 29 January 1510 ; 516 years ago ( 1510-01-29 )
- Launched
- July 1511
- Home port
- Portsmouth , England
- Fate
- Sank in battle in 1545, raised in 1982
- Tons burthen
- 500 (700–800 after 1536)
- Propulsion
- Sail
- Complement
- 200 sailors, 185 soldiers, and 30 gunners
- Armament
- 78–91 guns (including anti-personnel weapons)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Mary Rose was a carrack in the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. She was launched in 1511 and served for 34 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany. After being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545. She led the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, but sank off Spithead in the Solent, the strait north of the Isle of Wight.
The wreck of the Mary Rose was located in 1971 and was raised on 11 October 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust in one of the most complex and expensive maritime salvage projects in history. The surviving section of the ship and thousands of recovered artefacts are of significance as a Tudor period time capsule. The excavation and raising of the Mary Rose was a milestone in the field of maritime archaeology, comparable in complexity and cost to the raising of the 17th-century Swedish warship Vasa in 1961. The Mary Rose site is designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 by statutory instrument 1974/55. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mary Rose” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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