Scientists are debating whether it's possible to harness the power of gravity for interstellar space travel. "We had the bishop of Portsmouth here last week and he saw this book cover and pointed out it was probably the ship's bible cover," Mr Dobbs adds.The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sitesCharities could be set to benefit from a council-run sweepstake in Portsmouth.
These ships were to be the Mary Rose and her sister ship, the Peter Pomegranate.The ships were built in Portsmouth, making the sinking of the Mary Rose in the Solent and her eventual resting place in Portsmouth’s Mary Rose Museum all the more poignant. The wreck is designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986. Have a look around and click the icons for more information.Discover a whole new view of Henry VIII’s navy with our exciting exhibition, using the latest scientific and genealogical research to show us who really crewed the Mary Rose. Many would have been trapped under the anti-boarding netting and drowned.Legend has it that Henry VIII watched in horror from Southsea castle along with the wife of Vice Admiral Sir George Carew.As the ship sank, the cries and screams from the drowning men and boys could be heard back on land. The earliest reference to the Mary Rose is 29th January 1510, in a letter ordering the construction of “two new ships”. There are a number of theories as to how the ship sank in the Solent in Portsmouth in July 1545 – though whatever the cause, her demise was swift. Mary Rose Trust : Registered Company No. These bottles are part of Innocent's Big Knit, which raises money for Age UK.The Mary Rose - Henry VIII's warship, lost in 1545, recovered in 1982 and now on display in a dedicated museum in Portsmouth for everyone to visit all year roundThe Mary Rose, Main Road, Portsmouth, PO1 3PY, United KingdomWebsite by MindWorks Marketing. De grote overwinningen tegen Frankrijk tijdens de Hendrik VIII beval de bouw van meer schepen, onder meer de Het schip had vier niveaus, gescheiden door drie dekken.
This sketch is based on evidence from the remains of a man in his late 30s or early 40s, 163cm (5ft 4in). He was wearing a leather jerkin and a longbow was found nearby. De bronzen kanonnen werden op de We will never know.
"Henry"' - his skull had a broad nose bridge and wide cheek bones, leading researchers to believe he descended from Morocco or Algeria "What we're aiming to achieve here is a mirror image of the ship and to show artefacts where they belonged," explains Nick Butterley, exhibition co-ordinator. Het maakte deel uit van de vloot van Hendrik VIII. The Mary Rose, raised from the seabed in 1982, was the flagship of Henry VIII’s navy and now sits in her permanent home within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. In 1961 it was raised, refloated and moved to a dry dock.For 17 years the Vasa was sprayed with Polyethylene Glycol (PEG), the same type of wax scientists later used to preserve the Mary Rose.But the Vasa looks much the same as it did the day it sank For the next 300 years the Mary Rose - like a snapshot of Tudor military life - lay undisturbed on the seabed.Even though many items from the wreck were raised by early pioneering divers John and Charles Deane in 1836, the site was then lost again for another 100 years.It was finally located again in 1971 and, since then, divers have made 27,000 dives to the wreck site outside the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour.One chest got archaeologists particularly excited when they discovered it had a secret compartment.