The Mary Rose is based in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Built between 1509 and 1511, she was one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and was a firm favourite of King Henry VIII.
After a long and successful career, she sank accidentally during an engagement with the French fleet in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were seminal events in the history of nautical archaeology.
To mark the 500th anniversary year of King Henry VIII’s accession to the throne and of his commissioning of the Mary Rose, the Mary Rose Trust, the charity preserving the ship, is launching the Mary Rose 500 public appeal.
The appeal is seeking 500 individuals, schools, businesses and organisations to come on board and symbolically become the ‘new crew’ of the Tudor warship. Click on the logo or link to find out more, or view the appeal video on You Tube!
Please note: The hull of the Mary Rose will not be on display until mid 2012 while a new museum is built to house her. The present museum, displaying the amazing artefacts recovered from the wreck, will still be open during this period.
A New Museum for the Mary Rose
This section of the web site contains news, information and images covering the exciting project to build a new museum that will give the Mary Rose and her artefacts a fitting purpose-built home.
The Mary Rose Museum, located right by the entrance to the Historic Dockyard, will remain open and has new artefacts on display as well as a film showing the continuing conservation of the hull.
Meanwhile at the other end of the dockyard, work has started on the new museum, which will be built around the ship. This means for the next two and half years the Mary Rose ship will be closed to the public.
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