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.
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.
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!
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.
Latest News
- Rosary beads from the Mary Rose, a rocking horse and Banksy’s Paintpot Angel – objects that help tell a history of England and its relationship to the wider world.
BBC English Regions has partnered with museums and institutions across the country to help tell a history of the world through objects with both local and global resonances.
The project is part of A History of the World - which includes the landmark British Museum series on BBC Radio 4, A History of the World in 100 Objects. - read more - Mary Rose Trust releases photographs onto Wikipedia
The Portsmouth-based Mary Rose Trust have released a number of photographs relating to the salvaged sixteenth-century warship Mary Rose onto Wikipedia. This is the first such image donation by a UK-based organisation - read more
