„Mary Rose“ - the English carrack

The "Mary Rose" is an English three-decker carrack, the flagship of their navy during the reign of King Henry VIII Tudor. This is a large ship for its time, launched in Portsmouth in 1510. The ship got its name, most likely, from the name of Queen Mary Tudor of France (sister of the king) and the rose, the heraldic symbol of the Tudor family. During the Italian War, the carracks were commanded by the brothers Admiral Edward and Thomas Howard. In 1512 "Mary Rose" took part in the attack on Brest. In 1528 and 1536 the ship was modernized: the number of cannons increased to 91, the water capacity - up to 700 tons. In 1545 King Francis I of France landed on the Isle of Wight. The English sent 80 ships under the command of the "Mary Rose" to the Te-Solent Strait to defend the island. The overloaded artillery carrack, never known for stability, was suddenly heeled to starboard by a gust of wind, filled with water through her gun ports and sank with most of her crew and Admiral George Carey. Only 35 sailors out of 400 survived. Attempts were made to raise the ship for the next 20 years, but the level of technology at the time prevented it from being done. That the ship was lying on the ground at an angle of 60 degrees. Only part of the artillery was raised. By the end of the 16th century, the ship, which was clearly visible during low tides, began to disintegrate, and later she was completely buried by silt. In 1836, fishermen discovered the wreck of the "Mary Rose" and they approached the inventors of the diving suit, Charles and John Deans, complaining, that their nets were catching on some debris on the bottom and breaking. The brothers made a living by searching for old sunken ships, pulling everything, that could be torn off them with hooks and, at the same time, severely damaging the hulls of the ships they discovered. They set to work at once, and, when they found the remains of the ship, they recovered some of the ship's cannons, carriages, bows, pottery, scraps of cloth, and some human skulls. In 1840, they blasted open part of the hull of the "Mary Rose", partially destroying it, and lifted quite a large amount of artifacts. But most of them later decayed and disintegrated due to the fact that methods of preservation of things that had been in sea water for a long time were not yet known. The brothers finished the work in 1848, having decided, that there was nothing valuable left on the ship. As a result of their activities, the achtercastle of the ship opened, which, over time, decayed and disintegrated. But the Din brothers were unable to open most of the hull due to the thick layer of mud, that covered it, which protected it from the fate of other ships, lying at the bottom of the Solent - they were destroyed by amateur archaeologists. The interest of modern marine archaeologists in the ship "awakened" in the late 1960s. By 1982, it was possible to raise most of the remains of the ship from the bottom of the Solent. Exhibited at the "Mary Rose" Museum in Portsmouth, they perfectly illustrate the life of sailors in the first half of the 16th century.

A well-designed and well-detailed model of moderate complexity, that even advanced beginner modelers can glue together under the supervision of a more experienced colleague. Parts, where needs, are printed with double-sided printing. Sails and flags are double-sided printed on thin paper.
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