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For sale: Startlingly beautiful oil painting of fullrigged ship Invercargill painted in 1970 by renowned marine artist Keith A. Griffin, for sale at $2,600 plus packing, shipping and insurance. Size 36" x 26 ". Write: Gustav Alexandersson, Liivdalsvagen 35, S-13200 Saltsjii-Boo, Sweden.
Models of Achievement Favorites of discriminating model builders, ou r kits contain on ly the finest materials-no lead or plastic. Everything's included to make a handsome model, worthy of your time and care. Available at better dealers or send $2.00 for catalogue.
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The timbers of the first battleship, laid down by the young Henry VIII and sunk under his eyes in 1545, come to rest in Portsmouth Dockyard near the stern ofher younger sister HMS Victory, Nelson 'sjl.agship at Trafalgar in 1805. Guns (and much else) have been removed. The drawing below shows the recovered ship's structure.
The Mary Rose Comes Home One of the first acts of the new King Henry VIII was to order her laid down in 1509. Henry's restless ambition led him to import Italian gunners to teach the English how to make and use big guns-ultimately, ship-killing guns-which the English promptly put aboard big ships to exploit the new technology. The result in the Mary Rose , rebuilt and rearmed later in her career, is a ship closer in concept to the US Navy's Iowas- the world's last big-gun battleships-than to any of her predecessors or her contemporaries in other navies. Hailed early on by an English commander as " the flower I trow of all ships that ever sailed ," she capsized and sank under the King 's eyes in 1545, as she steered out to meet a hostile French fleet off Portsmouth (see SH23). The King is said to have heard the cries of the drowning men as the big ship heeled over after an ungainly tack (in rather light air) and sank as she filled through her open gun ports. She was loaded with extra hundreds of men in her towering fore and after castles, she had lately been more heavily armed than ever, and she may have been mishandled ; her commander George Carew exclaimed, as the ship next astern overhauled her: " I have the sort of knaves I cannot rule! " At three minutes after nine on Monday morning, October 11 , the oak timbers of
the great ship broke the surface as she was hauled up in a specially designed cradle. She was then conveyed to Portsmouth Dockyard , from whence she had set out so bravely 437 years before. Immediately the ship broke surface, the work of conservation began , with timbers being sprayed and wrapped in plastic to prevent their drying out after centuries-long entombment in the Solent mud outside the harbor mouth . The people of the Mary Rose Trust remarked : "The efforts of our new partners at the Naval Base must, in many ways, echo the frantic activity that was expended in that same dockyard to prepare the Mary Rose for her final battle ..." It was on September 29, in between patches of bad weather, that the cradle was lowered to the seabed to receive the ship, and October 25 before she came to rest in Drydock No. 1, from which she was moved to Drydock No. 3 where she may stay some time. It is expected to open the vessel to public viewing in April or May this year. Meantime the vessels and many people involved in the salvage effort have dispersed, as Dr. Margaret Rule, Chief Archaeologist , prepares for the long-term tasks of conservation and presentation of the ship. Over 2,000 people have contributed to this undertaking. Those interested in subscribing may write: Ship Trust , NMHS, 15 State Street , New York 10004.