Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose, Volume 1

Julie Gardiner, Michael J. Allen

Mary Rose Trust, 2005 - History - 732 pages

450 years ago Henry VIII's flagship tipped then sank on its maiden voyage in Portsmouth harbour. In 1982, amidst huge publicity, an expert crew of archaeologists and conservators raised the wreck and started a process of research that is now revealing fascinating details of life aboard the Tudor warship. Shipwrecks offer a chance to investigate a whole world, caught at a moment in time, and this volume sheds light on some of the minutiae of Tudor life inaccessible through any other means. (This is a provisional description awaiting a final version to be cleared with the Mary Rose Trust).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose, Volume 1; Volume 4 of Archaeology of the Mary Rose
• Editors: Julie Gardiner, Michael J. Allen
• Contributors: Michael J. Allen, Mary Anne Alburger, Mary Rose Trust
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Mary Rose Trust, 2005
• ISBN: 0954402944, 9780954402945
• Length: 732 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain / General; History / General; History / Military / Naval; Social Science / Archaeology; Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General; Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History