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The Mary Rose Museum

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Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career. #Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Jul 24

For the 14th year running, we've been awarded the @Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award, making us one of the top 10% attractions in the world, as well as the No. 1 in Portsmouth! #TravelersChoice

Come and find out why this summer...

MaryRose.org/Visit

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 45m

Who wouldn't want that?

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Find out more - maryrose.org/meet-the-cre...

The Surgeon - The Mary Rose

Who was the surgeon on the Mary Rose, and how did he treat the various injuries the crew picked up while working?

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1h

We feel we should add that, although traces of mercury were recovered from the surgeon’s chest, none of the human remains showed traces of syphilis!

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1h

Syringes such as this were used for urethral irrigations, inserted into the urethra and flushing it out with caustic fluids, such as mercury, which would burn off sores caused by diseases such as syphilis.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1h

Urethral syringe? You know where you can stick that...

This syringe was one of three recovered from the surgeon’s cabin of the Mary Rose. Of the three it is the only one made of pewter, with a bronze needle and a leather washer on the plunger.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 22h

Catch the latest episode of their podcast!

How they're preserving Henry VIII's flagship

YouTube video by Time Team Official

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 23h

Wonderful to have the @timeteam.bsky.social crew at the Mary Rose!

Martyn Williams @martynmnw.bsky.social · 23h

Had the pleasure of visiting the @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social and seeing the ship in a way few get to.
Watch our special edition of the @timeteam.bsky.social podcast to hear how they're preserving Henry VIII's flagship.

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How they're preserving Henry VIII's flagship

YouTube video by Time Team Official

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Dive into the untold story of the finding, excavation and recovery of the Mary Rose in our amazing 4D cinema experience!

maryrose.org/dive-4d/

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Even the Vasa, which so many people like to compare us to, didn't emerge fully rigged from the sea!

A picture of the freshly raised Vasa, lacking the ornate decoration on her stern, her masts and any rigging.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

We did a post a while back about at least one of the reasons why the Titanmic isn't coming up any time soon, you may have seen it...

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Apr 15

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Does feel like, despite our best efforts to manage expectations, people were expecting this to happen...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Having a great time looking through everyone's memories of watching the Mary Rose being raised.

So much truancy!

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Well, HMS Alliance over at our chums the Submarine Museum is apparently a Transformer already!

Even if, somehow, it made its way from Gosport to the open sea via the river Thames...

HMS Alliance, a WW2 submarine at the Submarine Museum in Gosport

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If that's what it took to get you interested...

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3d

CRASH!

On this day 11:49am, 11th October 1982, the world watched in horror as the lifting frame dramatically fell into place, having been caught on a misaligned strop. No real damage was done, other than to our nerves!

Find out more in our blog - maryrose.org/blog/crash-t...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 4d

On this day, 11th October 1982, the Mary Rose was raised from the Solent in one of the largest maritime archaeological projects the world has ever known.

This was viewed by 50 million people worldwide - were you watching? #WhereWereYouIn82

Find out more - maryrose.org/discover/his...

the wreck of the Mary Rose, supported in a large yellow lifting cradle, being raised from the seabed on 11th October 1982

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 4d

At 9:03 am, the Mary Rose broke the surface of the water, seeing sunlight (such as you can on a cloudy day!) for the first time in 437 years.

#WhereWereYouIn82

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d

In 1982, after 11 years of excavation lead by Margaret Rule, the Mary Rose was returned to the surface, but more on that tomorrow...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d

In 1971, after six years of searching, Alexander McKee's Project Solent Ships team discovered exposed timbers on the seabed.
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d

In 1836, pioneer divers Henry Abbinett, and later John Deane and William Edwards, rediscovered the Mary Rose, and recovered a number of objects, which either ended up in museums or were turned into souvenirs. The site was then abandoned again and forgotten.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d

When the ship originally sank in 1545, Venetian salvage operators Petre de Andreas and Symone de Maryne were hired to recover the ship, but only succeeded in recovering some of the ship's guns.

maryrose.org/discover/his...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Saturday marks the 43rd anniversary of the raising of the Mary Rose, but it wasn't the first attempt to recover Henry VIII's ship...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 6d

An archer on the Mary Rose had to be able to shoot 12 arrows a minute!

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Discover navigation in 16th century England through the wayfinding items and tools recovered from the Mary Rose in our talk and tour on Saturday 18th October!

maryrose.org/events/dive-...

A closeup of a Tudor ship's gimballed compass, with a set of brass dividers sitting on the box it's mounted in.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Feels like this is going to become one of those rants our dog has about Halloween 'skeletons' with ossified soft parts...

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