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‘One of the complete skeletons recovered is of an archer, and he was found in the hold. Both his shoulders have a condition called os acromiale, where the tip of bone, the acromion, on the shoulder-blade has not fused. It usually fuses at the age of 18, but regular strain (such as archery) can prevent this. We can also tell from his tooth enamel that he was either an Englishman or a Welshman.’
— Jun 02, 2018 02:28PM
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Charlie Fenton
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‘At 9.03am on 11 October 1982, inch-by-inch, Tog Mor gently raised the Mary Rose, previously secured on her lifting cradle, out of the Solent... Over 60 million people around the world watched the longest television outside broadcast yet undertaken, as the Mary Rose, between the lifting frame and cradle, was carefully lowered on to a barge for the short tow home to Portsmouth.’
— Jun 01, 2018 02:57PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 22 of 106
‘Two kilometres out from Portsmouth Harbour, cannons blazing, the Mary Rose fired her guns mounted on one side of the ship straight towards them. In readiness to fire again from the guns mounted on the other side, she immediately began to turn. As she turned, King Henry looked in absolute horror as she heeled over too far. Water gushed in through her open lower gun-ports and flooded the decks.’
— Jun 01, 2018 02:14PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘the king still had great respect and love for the reverence of the Virgin Mary. Also, naming a ship after his sister and not his wife, who he was very much in lobe with, would have been a strange decision. Indeed, Katherine did eventually get a ship named after her, the Katherine Pleasance, but not until 1518. Whichever Mary she was named after, there is no doubt that the rose refers to the Tudor rose.’
— Jun 01, 2018 02:02PM
