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Mary Rose: England's Tudor Warship Lost in the Battle of the Solent (1545)

by Gordon J. MacKenzie
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798242120198
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 126
  • Original Price: GBP 12.63
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 164 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)

In July 1545, Henry VIII watched as one of the proudest warships of his reign sank in the Solent.

The Mary Rose was not an ordinary vessel. Built during Henry's naval revolution, she represented England's move from temporary sea power to a permanent royal fleet. She carried guns, soldiers, sailors, craftsmen, and the political ambition of a king who wanted the sea itself to become an instrument of Tudor power.

Then, during the Battle of the Solent, she heeled, took water, and sank with terrifying speed. Hundreds of men were trapped and drowned within sight of the English coast.

Mary Rose: England's Tudor Warship Lost in the Battle of the Solent (1545) tells the full story of the ship, from Henry VIII's naval ambitions and the building of the Tudor warship to life aboard, the French invasion threat, the fatal sinking, the early salvage attempts, and the extraordinary modern recovery of the wreck.

This book explores not only how the Mary Rose was lost, but why she still matters. Her wreck revealed weapons, tools, personal belongings, human remains, shipboard routines, Tudor medicine, military transition, and the dangerous birth of England's gun-armed navy.

The Mary Rose was a royal warship, a workplace, a tomb, and eventually one of the most important maritime archaeological discoveries ever recovered.

Part naval history, part Tudor history, and part archaeological investigation, this is the story of a ship that failed in front of a king, vanished beneath the Solent, and returned centuries later with evidence no court historian could control.

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