Letters From The Mary Rose

Author : David Loades
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 1803990740
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Mary Rose written by David Loades and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The authors are to be congratulated on a book which merits usage in the national curriculum.' - International Journal of Nautical Archaeology The raising of the Tudor warship Mary Rose in 1982 has made her one of the most famous ships in history, though there is a good deal more to her story than its terminal disaster. She served successfully in the Royal Navy for more than thirty years before sinking, for reasons still uncertain, during a battle off Portsmouth in 1545. There have been many books published about Mary Rose but this is the only one written largely by those who sailed with her. It is based around original documents, including all the known despatches written aboard Mary Rose by the commanding admirals. Extracts from accounts and other papers illustrate the building, equipping and provisioning of the ship. Although this is primarily a view from the quarter-deck, there are occasional glimpses of life below. The collection concludes with reports of the sinking, and of the first attempts to salvage the ship and her ordnance. The documents are presented in modern spelling and are set in context through linking narratives. Technical terms are explained, and the principal characters introduced. The texts are supplemented by contemporary images, and by photographs of the preserved ship and recovered objects. A new range of illustrations has been added to this edition, published forty years on from the raising of the hull.

Author : Diana Braun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781740180498
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from Mary Rose written by Diana Braun and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Childs
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848322119
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Warship Mary Rose written by David Childs and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new paperback edition brings the history of Henry VIII's famous warship right up to date with new chapters on the stunning presentation of the hull and the 19,000 salvaged artefacts in the new museum in Portsmouth.??Mary Rose has, along with HMS Victory, become an instantly recognisable symbol of Britain's maritime past, while the extraordinary richness of the massive collection of artefacts gleaned from the wreck has meant that the ship has acquired the status of some sort of 'time capsule', as if it were a Tudor burial site. But she is much more than an archaeological relic; she was a warship, and a revolutionary one, that served in the King's navy for thirty-four years, almost the entire length of his reign.??This book tells the story of her eventful career, placing it firmly within the colourful context of Tudor politics, court life and the developing administration of a permanent navy. And though the author also brings the story right down to the present day, with chapters on the recovery, the fresh ideas and information thrown up by the massive programme of archaeological work since undertaken, and the new display just recently opened at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, it is at heart a vivid retelling of her career and, at the end, her dramatic sinking.??With this fine narrative and the beautiful illustrations the book will appeal to the historian and enthusiast, and also to the general reader and museum visitor.

Author : Douglas McElvogue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472845714
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tudor Warship Mary Rose written by Douglas McElvogue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great warship the Mary Rose was built between 1509 and 1511 and served 34 years in Henry VIII's navy before catastrophically sinking in the Battle of the Solent on 19 July 1545. A fighting platform and sailing ship, she was the pride of the Tudor fleet. Yet her memory passed into undeserved oblivion – until the remains of this magnificent flagship were dramatically raised to the surface in 1982 after 437 years at the bottom of the Solent. Part of the bestselling Conway Anatomy of The Ship series, Tudor Warship Mary Rose provides the finest possible graphical representation of the Mary Rose. Illustrated with a complete set of scale drawings, this book contains technical plans as well as explanatory views, all with fully descriptive keys. Douglas McElvogue uses archaeological techniques to trace the development and eventful career of Henry VIII's gunship, while placing it in the context of longer-term advances in ship construction. This volume features: -The first full archaeological reconstruction of the Mary Rose, as she would have appeared when built and when she sank. -The concepts behind the building of the ship, along with consideration of the materials used and her fitting-out and manning. -The ship's ordnance, including muzzle loaders, breech loaders, firearms, bows,staff weapons, bladed weapons and fire pots. -Analysis of the contemporary descriptions of the Mary Rose's sailing characteristics and ship handling, whether general sailing, heavy weather sailing, anchoring, mooring, stemming the tide or riding out storms. -A service history of the Mary Rose examining the campaigns of the vessel: the battles she was involved in, when she held station in the Channel and the periods in which she was laid up.

Author : Peter Marsden
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 152674936X
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1545: Who Sank the Mary Rose? written by Peter Marsden and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “wonderful” account of the raising of a sixteenth-century warship, and answers to the long-running mysteries surrounding her loss (Naval Historical Foundation). In 1982, a Tudor Navy warship was raised in a major salvage project that represented a landmark in maritime archaeology. The Mary Rose had spent over four centuries underwater, and contained the skeletons of numerous sailors as well as many fascinating artifacts of the time. She is more than a relic, however. She has a story to tell, and her sinking in the Solent while under attack by the French, and the reasons for it, have intrigued historians for generations. With the benefit of access to her remains, archaeologists have been able to slowly unravel the mystery of her foundering on a calm summer’s day in July 1545. This new book by a leading expert on the Mary Rose contains much information that is published for the first time. It provides the first full account of the battle in which Henry VIII’s warship was sunk, and tells the stories of the English and French admirals. It examines the design and construction of the ship and how she was used, and finally makes clear who was responsible for the loss of the Mary Rose, after describing what happened onboard, deck by deck, in her last moments afloat. Includes photographs

Author : Brian Vale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351730835
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naval Miscellany written by Brian Vale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and King’s College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, he has long specialised in Anglo-South American maritime history. His books include Independence or Death! British sailors and Brazilian Independence, A Frigate of King George, The Audacious Admiral Cochrane and Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America.

Author : David Childs
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848320310
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tudor Sea Power written by David Childs and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth century England turned from being an insignifcant part of an offshore island into a nation respected and feared in Europe. This was not achieved through empire building, conquest, large armies, treaties, marriage alliances, trade or any of the other traditional means of exercising power. Indeed England was successful in few of these. Instead she based her power and eventual supremacy on the creation of a standing professional navy which firstly would control her coasts and those of her rivals, and then threaten their trade around the world. This emergence of a sea-power brought with it revolutionary ship designs and new weapon-fits, all with the object of making English warships feared on the seas in which they sailed. Along with this came the absorption of new navigational skills and a breed of sailor who fought for his living. Indeed, the English were able to harness the avarice of the merchant and the ferocity of the pirate to the needs of the state to create seamen who feared God and little else. Men schooled as corsairs rose to command the state's navy and their background and self-belief defeated all who came against them. This is their story; the story of how seizing command of the sea with violent intent led to the birth of the greatest seaborne empire the world has ever seen.

Author : Henry Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Letters written by Henry Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: 1074-1525 written by Henry Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Angleterre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Letters, Illustrative of English History written by Angleterre and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: