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Reinterpreting a Tudor flagship: the Mary Rose and her crew
Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, famously sank in the Solent more than 500 years ago. Her partial remains were recovered by archaeologists in 1982 – what has been learned since then? Peter Marsden explores some of the latest thinking on the Tudor vessel’s appearance and her crew.
Almost 40 years have passed since the wreck of the ill-fated Tudor flagship, the Mary Rose, was raised from the Solent seaway (see CA 218 and 272). Today, her surviving remains are preserved in a purpose-built museum in Portsmouth, a short distance from where the ship was built more than 500 years earlier, and in close proximity to other naval icons such as Nelson’s Victory and – outside the Historic Dockyard – some of the most modern warships in the Royal Navy, bristling with armaments that dwarf the bows, arrows, and cannon with which the Mary Rose fought.
This reconstructed inboard elevation shows the Mary Rose as recent research suggests she may have looked in 1545. Her survivin
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