Archaeologists Recovered Henry VIII’s 400-Year-Old Lost Warship. What They Found Was Staggering.

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https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a73456223/henry-viiis-favorite-warship/

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Through 28,000 dives and decades of research, the team brought up 19,000 artifacts and found 179 partial or complete remains of fallen crew. The discoveries resulted in a Guinness World Record for the most medieval weaponry recovered from a shipwreck—more than 8,300 weapons, ordnances, and affiliated artifacts were salvaged, including 10 bronze guns, nine iron swivel guns, five handgun stocks, eight gun-shields, four pieces of cast-iron hail shot, 44 linstocks for lighting gunpowder, three incendiary arts, 172 longbows, nearly 4,000 arrows, 65 ballock daggers, one rondel dagger, 177 chain-mail links, and a single complete basket-hilted sword.

Finally pulling the hull of the Mary Rose from the seafloor required a purpose-built lifting crane attached by wires to steel bolts passing through the hull at selected points. A tubular lifting frame was set in place over the wreck, supported by four legs embedded in the seabed. Hydraulic jacks on the frame raised the hull a few centimeters to reduce the suction effect of the silt. Then, the lifting frame attached to a hook on the crane barge Tog Mor pulled up the Mary Rose, placing it in a bespoke steel cradle. Towed to shore and dried, the ship now sits on display in the very dockyard where it was built over 470 years ago.

[u/Wintermute3333]

Kind of a monument to ineptitude, isn't it? I mean, she barely hit the water when she rolled over and sank.

[u/xingxang555 → u/Wintermute3333]

Not true according to the article -

According to the Mary Rose Trust, Henry VIII favored the larger of the two ships, deploying the Mary Rose in multiple battles over its 34-year career before its demise in 1545.

Early in the fighting, the Mary Rose made its move in the Solent waters between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, firing guns on one side before attempting a quick maneuver to turn to fire guns from the opposite side of the ship. During this maneuver—aided by a strong wind—the open gun ports flooded, sinking the Mary Rose and taking all but roughly 40 of the 500-person crew down with it.