Abstract
Henry VIII's flagship The Mary Rose sank in the Solent, at the outset of a battle to repel an impending French invasion in 1545. She went down less than 2 km from the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, in full view of those waiting to fight on land and sea. Perhaps too heavily laden, with 91 heavy guns, while making a turn under sail she took on water along one side through her open gunports, and swiftly capsized. Her hull settled metres deep under the soft sediments it had initially disturbed. There she lay, on the underlying clay of the sea bed, until the remarkable process of raising her remains was completed in 1982.
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