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Shipwreck · Raised (museum)

The Mary Rose

Sank 1545 · raised 1982, The Solent, off Portsmouth, England
RECOVERED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Mary Rose: still unexplained.

Henry VIII's flagship, a Tudor time capsule

The law of this ground: Conserved at the Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
The subject
developing the photograph…
The manifest
Henry VIII's flagship, a Tudor time capsule
The account

Leading the charge against a French invasion fleet, Henry VIII's favourite warship heeled as she turned, took water through her open gunports, and went down in the Solent before the king's eyes. The Solent silt sealed half of her, and in 1982 she was lifted in one of the most complex salvages ever attempted, her hull, her longbows, her crew's shoes and combs, a whole Tudor world preserved.

Leads, where the trail points now
  • Henry VIII's flagship sank in the Solent in 1545 and was raised in 1982; the hull and some 19,000 artifacts are in the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, so this is a site to study, not search.
  • The wreck site is a protected designated wreck; parts of the bow and loose timbers remain on the seabed and are still surveyed.
  • The live research is conservation of the waterlogged hull and the Tudor crew's remains, studied with isotope and DNA work.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • Henry VIII's flagship sank in the Solent in 1545 and was raised in 1982; the hull and some 19,000 artifacts are in the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, so this is a site to study, not search.
  • The wreck site is a protected designated wreck; parts of the bow and loose timbers remain on the seabed and are still surveyed.
  • The live research is conservation of the waterlogged hull and the Tudor crew's remains, studied with isotope and DNA work.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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Chart position 50.760°, -1.100° (approx.) View on the Map