<Tr> <Td> Armament: </Td> <Td> 78--91 guns (including anti-personnel weapons) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Mary Rose is a carrack - type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII . After serving for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany and after being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545 . While leading the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, she sank in the Solent, the straits north of the Isle of Wight . </P> <P> The wreck of the Mary Rose was rediscovered in 1971 . It was raised in 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust, in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology . The surviving section of the ship and thousands of recovered artefacts are of immeasurable value as a Tudor - era time capsule . The excavation and raising of the Mary Rose was a milestone in the field of maritime archaeology, comparable in complexity and cost only to the raising of the Swedish 17th - century warship Vasa in 1961 . </P> <P> The finds include weapons, sailing equipment, naval supplies and a wide array of objects used by the crew . Many of the artefacts are unique to the Mary Rose and have provided insights into topics ranging from naval warfare to the history of musical instruments . Since the mid-1980s, while undergoing conservation, the remains of the hull have been on display at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard . An extensive collection of well - preserved artefacts is on display at the nearby Mary Rose Museum, built to display the reconstructed ship and its artefacts . </P>

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