Work begins on reassembling the Newport ship
This January, conservation of the roughly 2,500 timbers recovered from the wreck was completed – a process that took 14 years
timber conservation
Tudor seapower: When Britannia first ruled the waves
Thirty years ago, the wreck of the Mary Rose, pride of Henry VIII’s navy, rose from the seabed to the gasps of a live TV audience of millions. Neil Faulkner takes the opportunity to review the rise of English seapower in the early 16th century.