Mary Rose

A four-masted English warship built in 1510 at the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth, for the Royal Navy.
1510
Launched at the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth.
1545 July 19
Foundered during the battle of Spithead against the French fleet on July 19, 1545, and sank off Southsea Castle.
1965
The search for the wreck began.
1970
The wreck site was found by Alexander McKee.
1982
The remains of the starboard side of the ship was recovered in 1982 and is presently undergoing conservation in Portsmouth, where it is on display at the Royal Dockyard.

Select Bibliography

  1. anon.: Mary Rose Now Upright.
    Nautical Research Journal Vol. 31, Bethesda, 1986. pp 70, ill.
  2. Bradford, Ernle: The Story of the Mary Rose.
    London, 1982. ISBN 0-241-10768-7.
  3. Bradford, E.: King Henry VIII's Mary Rose.
    London, 1973. ISBN 0 285 62091 6.
  4. Bridge, Martin C. & Dobbs, C.T.C.: Tree-ring studies on the Tudor Warship Mary Rose.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Tree-Rings, Environment & Humanity, Relationships and Processes. Radiocarbon, Tuscon, Arizona, 1995.
  5. Brossard, M. de: The French and English Versions of the Loss of the Mary Rose in 1545.
    The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 70, London, 1984. pp 387.
  6. Chippendale, C.: Conserving the Mary Rose.
    New Scientist 99.1367 (1983), 281-4.
  7. Clark, R. W. & Squirrell, J. P., The Pilodyne - an instrument for assessing the condition of waterlogged wooden objects.
    Studies in Conservation, 30 (1985), pp 177-83.
  8. Dammann, Werner: Die Mary Rose wurde gehoben.
    Das Logbuch 19. Jg, Heidesheim, 1983. pp 32, ill.
  9. Dobbs, C.T.C.: The Mary Rose, Archaeology and Salvage Combined.
    Proceedings of the Man-Made Objects on the Seafloor, Discovery, Investigation and Recovery Conference. Society for Underwater Technology, London, 1995.
  10. Dobbs, C.T.C.: Recent Developments on the Mary Rose Project.
    Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Washington, 1995.
  11. Eaton, B. & McDonald, K.: The Mary Rose raised.
    Diver 27.11 (1982), 16.
  12. Eaton, B.: Mary Rose - here comes the last lap.
    Diver 26.9 (1981), pp 21-3.
  13. Fisher, John: Some Recent News of the Mary Rose.
    Nautical Research Journal Vol. 30,Bethesda,1984. pp 29-30, ill.
  14. Hildred, Alex: The King's ship: a study in strategic ordnance.
    IJNA Vol. 17, London, 1988. pp 55.
  15. Howard, F.: The Mary Rose's complement.
    The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 71(1985), p 86.
  16. Junius, Hartwig: Die Mary Rose wird aufgerichtet.
    Das Logbuch 22. Jg, Heidesheim, 1986. pp 25-27, ill.
  17. Kure, Bernt: Skibsrestaureringsprojekter i England.
    Marinehistorisk Tidsskrift 17. årg, Khvn, 1984. pp 26-30.
  18. McKee, Alexander: How we found the Mary Rose.
    Souvenir Press, London, 1982. ISBN 0 285 62544 6.
  19. McKee, Alexander: King Henry VIII's Mary Rose - its fate and future.
    Souvenir Press, London, 1973. 8vo, xi, 346 pp, ill, 8 pl, 2 maps. ISBN 0 285 62091 6.
  20. McKee, Alexander: The Mary Rose's Complement.
    The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 72, London, 1986. pp 74.
  21. McKee, Alexander: The story of the Mary Rose.
    London, 1973. ISBN 0-241-10768-7.
  22. McKee, Alexander: The search for King Henry VIII's Mary Rose,
    in Blackman, D. J. (ed.), Marine Archaeology. London, 1973. ISBN 0 408 70477 2.
  23. McNarry, Donald: Taboo Subjects.
    Model Shipwright Vol. 12, London, 1983-84. pp 45:44-47, ill.
    A model of the Mary Rose after the foundering, only showing the masttops above the water.
  24. Robinson, C.N.: The Fight of the Mary Rose.
    The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 12, London, 1924. pp 97-100, 2 pl;
  25. Rule, Margaret H.: The Mary Rose. The Excavation and Raising of Henry VIII's Flagship.
    Conway Maritime Press, Greenwich, 1982. 4to, 224 pp, ill.
  26. Rule, Margaret H.: The Mary Rose, the Excavation and Raising of Henry VIII's Flagship.
    Leicester, 1982. ISBN 0-7112-0323-7.
  27. Rule, Margaret H.: The Mary Rose. An interim report, 1971.
    IJNA Vol. 1, London, 1972. pp 132-135, ill.
  28. Rule, Margaret H.: The Mary Rose. A second interim report, 1972.
    IJNA Vol. 2, London, 1973. pp 385-388, ill.
  29. Stirland, A., 1984, The burials from King Henry VIII's ship the Mary Rose: an interim statement.
    Paleopathology Newsletter 47 (1984), pp 7-10.
  30. Tunley, R., 1982, Secrets from a time ship.
    Readers Digest 120.719 (1982), pp 66-73.
  31. Vine, Stuart M.: Some Aspects of Deck Construction in the Mary Rose.
    3rd New Researchers in Maritime History Conference, Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, 1995.
  32. Walker, W. & Dunham, R. & Hildred, A. & Rule, M.: Analytical study of composite shot from the Mary Rose.
    J. of Hist. Metallurgy 23.2 (1989), pp 84-90.
  33. Watt, James: Surgeons of the Mary Rose: The practice of surgery in Tudor England.
    The Mariner's Mirror vol. 69, London, 1983. pp 3-19, ill.
  34. Weeks, Jane: The Mary Rose.
    Model Shipwright Vol. 11, London, 1982. pp 41:47-48, ill.
  35. Weeks, Jane: The raising of the Mary Rose.
    Model Shipwright vol. 11, London, 1982-83. pp 43:50-51, ill.
  36. Whitlock, Peter: King Henry VIII's Mary Rose - 1511-45, an Outline of the Project and its Progress.
    The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 66, London, 1980. pp 344-348, ill.
  37. Whitlock, Peter: King Henry VIII's Mary Rose, 1511-1545.
    The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 67, London, 1981. pp 379-382, ill.
  38. Whitlock, Peter: The Boatswain's Call: An Updating.
    The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 71, London, 1985. pp 167-168, ill.
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