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Research underway to find best materials for conserving HMS Victory

Specially designed tests will assess a range of paints, caulking, glues, and metal fastenings.

Top This reconstructed inboard elevation shows the Mary Rose as recent research suggests she may have looked in 1545. Her surviving timbers pictured in the Mary Rose Museum (above) are indicated at the centre, with missing portions recreated using dotted lines. From the bottom, we can see her hold, orlop deck, main gun deck, and upper gun deck, with three decks in the forecastle and sterncastle indicated at either end.

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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 almost 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.