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The Mary Rose Museum

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Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career. #Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Jul 24

For the 14th year running, we've been awarded the @Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award, making us one of the top 10% attractions in the world, as well as the No. 1 in Portsmouth! #TravelersChoice

Come and find out why this summer...

MaryRose.org/Visit

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2h

Even the Vasa, which so many people like to compare us to, didn't emerge fully rigged from the sea!

A picture of the freshly raised Vasa, lacking the ornate decoration on her stern, her masts and any rigging.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2h

We did a post a while back about at least one of the reasons why the Titanmic isn't coming up any time soon, you may have seen it...

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Apr 15

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2h

Does feel like, despite our best efforts to manage expectations, people were expecting this to happen...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2h

Having a great time looking through everyone's memories of watching the Mary Rose being raised.

So much truancy!

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3h

Well, HMS Alliance over at our chums the Submarine Museum is apparently a Transformer already!

Even if, somehow, it made its way from Gosport to the open sea via the river Thames...

HMS Alliance, a WW2 submarine at the Submarine Museum in Gosport

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3h

If that's what it took to get you interested...

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

CRASH!

On this day 11:49am, 11th October 1982, the world watched in horror as the lifting frame dramatically fell into place, having been caught on a misaligned strop. No real damage was done, other than to our nerves!

Find out more in our blog - maryrose.org/blog/crash-t...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

On this day, 11th October 1982, the Mary Rose was raised from the Solent in one of the largest maritime archaeological projects the world has ever known.

This was viewed by 50 million people worldwide - were you watching? #WhereWereYouIn82

Find out more - maryrose.org/discover/his...

the wreck of the Mary Rose, supported in a large yellow lifting cradle, being raised from the seabed on 11th October 1982

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

At 9:03 am, the Mary Rose broke the surface of the water, seeing sunlight (such as you can on a cloudy day!) for the first time in 437 years.

#WhereWereYouIn82

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3d

In 1982, after 11 years of excavation lead by Margaret Rule, the Mary Rose was returned to the surface, but more on that tomorrow...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3d

In 1971, after six years of searching, Alexander McKee's Project Solent Ships team discovered exposed timbers on the seabed.
maryrose.org/discover/his...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3d

In 1836, pioneer divers Henry Abbinett, and later John Deane and William Edwards, rediscovered the Mary Rose, and recovered a number of objects, which either ended up in museums or were turned into souvenirs. The site was then abandoned again and forgotten.

maryrose.org/discover/his...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3d

When the ship originally sank in 1545, Venetian salvage operators Petre de Andreas and Symone de Maryne were hired to recover the ship, but only succeeded in recovering some of the ship's guns.

maryrose.org/discover/his...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3d

Saturday marks the 43rd anniversary of the raising of the Mary Rose, but it wasn't the first attempt to recover Henry VIII's ship...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 4d

An archer on the Mary Rose had to be able to shoot 12 arrows a minute!

maryrose.org/meet-the-cre...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 4d

Discover navigation in 16th century England through the wayfinding items and tools recovered from the Mary Rose in our talk and tour on Saturday 18th October!

maryrose.org/events/dive-...

A closeup of a Tudor ship's gimballed compass, with a set of brass dividers sitting on the box it's mounted in.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 4d

Feels like this is going to become one of those rants our dog has about Halloween 'skeletons' with ossified soft parts...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Can't believe we have to clarify that we're just saying that they existed at the same time, not that we're accusing them...

A suspicious-looking dodo in front of the Mary Rose sinking.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Are you suggesting they were wiped out in retaliation?

two men are sitting in a car and one of them is saying that does n't sound right

ALT: two men are sitting in a car and one of them is saying that does n't sound right

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Sadly not, the dodo isn't mentioned by Europeans until the Dutch arrived in Mauritius in 1598.

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Dodos were thriving when the Mary Rose sank.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d

You could try here - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose

Materials scientist Eleanor Schofield on conserving a 500-year-old wooden warship.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 6d

If you missed this you can listen to it now on BBC Sounds

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Find out more about feeding the crew of the Mary Rose - maryrose.org/meet-the-cre...

The Cook - The Mary Rose

Who was the Mary Rose's cook, and what food and drink did the crew of the Mary Rose have?

maryrose.org

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Both galley ovens can be seen in the museum, one as it was found on the seabed, the other reconstructed based on historical images and study of the originals. We even built a replica one that we sometimes fire up for cookery demonstrations!

A galley oven, mostly a pile of bricks and a large copper-allow cauldron on the top.

A galley oven, a brick-built structure with a lead llined copper cauldron in the top.

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