THE MARY ROSE.

[Peter Hudson]

as a subject of this artwork showing where she sank...with the loss of more than 400 men in what appears to be an accident or malfunction in design.

[Peter Hudson]

Flagship of Henry VIII

[Peter Hudson]

Probably the best write up is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose

What I found very interesting was that among the artefacts discovered were a number of English Longbows as well as an amazing English Basket Hilt Sword.

Peter Hudson.

[Peter Hudson]

So filling in the facts...

The Mary Rose was a carrack in the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. She was launched in 1511 and served for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany. After being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545. She led the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, but sank in the Solent, the strait north of the Isle of Wight.

[Peter Hudson]

A note on the sketch of the Mary Rose above..

The first illustration of the first roll of the Anthony Roll, depicting the Henry Grace à Dieu, the largest ship in the English navy during the reign of King Henry VIII.

So what is the Anthony Role?

[Peter Hudson]

The Anthony Roll is a written record of ships of the English Tudor navy of the 1540s, named after its creator, Anthony Anthony. It originally consisted of three rolls of vellum, depicting 58 naval vessels along with information on their size, crew, armament, and basic equipment. The rolls were presented to King Henry VIII in 1546, and were kept in the royal library. In 1680 King Charles II gave two of the rolls to Samuel Pepys, who had them cut up and bound as a single volume book, which is now in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The third roll remained in the royal collection until it was given by King William IV to his daughter Lady Mary Fox, who sold it to the British Museum in 1858; it is now owned by the British Library.