The Mary Rose Trust is a limited charitable trust based in

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in the

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. Its primary aims are to preserve, display and spread knowledge about the 16th century warship ''

Mary Rose The ''Mary Rose'' (launched 1511) is a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. She served for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany. After being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her ...

'' which sank in

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on 19 July 1545 and was salvaged by the Trust in October 1982. The Mary Rose Trust runs the Mary Rose Museum in

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History

The Mary Rose Trust traces its origins back to the Mary Rose Committee, founded in 1968 with the intent "to find, excavate, raise and preserve for all time such remains of the ship ''Mary Rose'' as may be of historical or archaeological interest". Rule 1983, p. 54. The wrecksite was scouted and surveyed with

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in 1967-68, revealing a hidden feature, the first loose timber was located in 1970 and the buried wreck of the ''Mary Rose'' finally located on 5 May 1971. Throughout the 1970s volunteer divers and archaeologists surveyed the ship and conducted some limited excavations. Marsden 2003, pp. 30-34; Rule 1983, pp. 47-54.