The men who built ships were called shipwrights. It was a very skilled job.

In this section we'll take a look at some of the skills of the shipwright.

In 1995, the Mary Rose Trust put on the first "Tudor Shipwright" display.

This demonstrated the skills of the shipwright, and we'll look at what they did, from choosing a tree to making ship's timbers.

 

A Tudor Shipwright at Work - by Roger Purkis