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The Mary Rose

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Hampshire

Henry VIII's warship, which sank before his eyes.

On 19 July 1545 the Mary Rose sailed out to fight a French fleet in the Solent. As Henry VIII watched from the shore, she heeled over and sank.

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When
Sank 1545, raised 1982
Where
50.8020, -1.1090
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

The Mary Rose Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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