Mary Rose
F1. Maritime HistoryDefinition
Tudor warship sunk in 1545 in the Solent and raised in 1982.
The Mary Rose was a Tudor carrack-built warship of Henry VIII, launched in 1511, that sank in the Solent on 19 July 1545 during an engagement with a French fleet, with the loss of most of her crew. Her starboard side, buried in silt, preserved a remarkable cross-section of Tudor shipboard life. Raised in 1982 in a televised operation, the hull and tens of thousands of artifacts are conserved and displayed at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, making her one of the most important archaeological finds of the period.