40th Anniversary of Largest Maritime Dig In History, Overseen By A Foundation Headed by King Charles III

Submitted by CalebRogers t3_y2w4ff in history

In 1982 the renowned Alexander McKee's efforts to excavate Henry VIII's famous warship The Mary Rose paid off, and the ship was pulled from the seabed by the combined efforts of the Royal Navy and an archaeological dig team. Disaster struck during the raising and the ship was nearly lost once more, but now she sits in her own dedicated state-of-the-art museum on a naval base in Portsmouth.

https://www.spyglassmagazine.co.uk/post/the-raising-of-the-mary-rose-40-years-on

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Mc00p t1_is6c3zk wrote

I was under the impression that the Vasa, a Swedish warship from the 1620s was a bigger maritime dig.

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gerdesj t1_is7yrlh wrote

No need for the willy waving! Size isn't everything (don'tcher know).

The Vasa recovery is undeniably impressive. My mum saw it in the 1980s when she picked up a Saab 99 from Sweden and brought it back to West Germany. Her report was very favourable about it.

Is it a little bit bizarre - Brits driving Swedish cars in the old FRG? Nope! The Saab 99 was a heavy beast and with snow tyres, could easily get up snowy slopes/roads that left BMWs and Mercs looking like expensive twits, parked on the corners of switchbacks up the mountains in Bayern. The Audi Quattro and later others sorted that problem out with 4WD. I still have a toy one given to me by a German on my 17th birthday.

I commend Herr Wurm to you (no longer with us).

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NBrixH t1_is9c9e5 wrote

Oookay, got a bit off topic there mate

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fiendishrabbit t1_is9pga4 wrote

In number of recovered artifacts (30,000+) and the size of the ship the Vasa is definitely the bigger find.

However, the Vasa was in much better condition and the recovery process went much smoother, so the recovery of the Vasa required "only" some 1500 dives (although some of them, like laying the supporting cables through the mud under the ship, were very dangerous and required skilled divers) as opposed to the 25,000+ dives required to recover the Mary Rose artifacts.

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Ferengi_Earwax t1_is63g6p wrote

I mean did you really have to add the part about Charles? Unless the whole point was trying to get good piblicity..

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69SadBoi69 t1_is66sia wrote

"Overseen" lol. Mfer just slapped his name on it and probs gave them some money and forgot about it

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Ferengi_Earwax t1_is671ou wrote

If I remember correctly he made a cameo on the time team where they dove on the ship wreck. I'm not sure about his involvement, but I'd still prefer his name was left out of a reddit title ffs

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NiceButOdd t1_isk2jat wrote

I remember watching this on the news as a kid

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