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Mary Rose Museum at Royal Navy Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - Video Tour
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Jan 29, 2025
Mary Rose Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - a Video Tour of the dockyard including HMS Victory and HMS Warrior and then a tour through Henry XIII's battleship discovered in silt in the 1970s, and open to public on May 2013. For more visit the site: http://www.tipsfortravellers.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge
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Portsmouth on the south coast of the UK
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has been home of the royal Navy for
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centuries the Portsmouth historic
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dockyard welcomes visitors while still
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being an operating base for 2/3 of the
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Navy HMS Warrior 1860 is one of three
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historical battleships docked here and
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open to be toured this Majestic steel
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Victorian Battleship was the very first
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to be powered by steam as well as sails
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though the better known ship to tour is
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HMS vict
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famously commanded by vice admiral Lord
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Horatio Nelson who was wounded and died
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on board during the Battle of Trafalga
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it led a fleet of 27 ships that defeated
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the combined French and Spanish Navy in
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1805 off the coast of Spain over 800 men
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lived worked and fought on this
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Battleship it is still in commission and
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is the official Flagship of the first
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Sea
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Lord inside this building is the third
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and most recent Battleship addition to
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the dockyard hidden in darkness inside
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here are the remains of the five 100y
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old Mary Rose Henry VII's Flagship
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Battleship sank in a battle of the coast
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in 1545 located in 1972 raised in 1982
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and open to public view in
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2013 on the 19th of July 1545 Henry VII
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watched from Land as his Flagship led
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the attack against an invading French
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Fleet in the battle of the solent today
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his waxwork watches this huge screen
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telling the story of the battle on board
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the merry Rose were almost 500 men after
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firing her cannons the ship turned
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killed to one side filled with water and
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sank fast only 30 people survived
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traveling up in a glass-sided elevator
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you can see the half of the ship that
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survived 500 years submerged in Silt at
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the bottom of the
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sea the large ship is now cased inside a
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massive glass case for 30 years it was
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sprayed constantly with water to
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preserve it since May 2013 the process
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of drawing it out began it will take at
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least 5 years half of the museum is this
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vast glass case where at different
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levels and angles you can view the
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remains of the battleship opposite the
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wreck is a mirror image of the ship here
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the actual cannons found buried with the
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ship been placed and lined up with where
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they would have been on the deck's
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opposite the rest of the museum explores
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the preservation and thousands of
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artifacts found with the ship different
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members of the crew cre like this one
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here had been recreated this was
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achieved using the skeletons bones and
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the skulls found with the
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ship there are a series of sections like
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this for the master carer showing what
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they probably look like what they did
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their personal and professional effects
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the carpenter section even includes a
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skeleton of his pet dog the drowned
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caught in the sliding door when the ship
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sunk 19,000 artifacts were recovered
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with the ship it's been described as
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being an English Pompei preserved by
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water as it froze history and time it
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has revealed so much about life 500
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years ago the gift shop at the end of
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the tour feels like it also packed with
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19,000 artifacts this time though it's
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packed with souvenirs gifts food and
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various models that will help to fund
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the museum to date the museum and the
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preservation has been funded by the
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national lottery Heritage fund
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the Mary Rose museum at Portsmouth
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historic dockyard is a remarkable and
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moving
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Museum