Photo: The Mary Rose Museum
Posted on 11/20/2021 10:49:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The crown jewel of Henry VIII’s 16th century fleet was its flagship, the venerable Mary Rose. More than 500 years after its launch, the vessel remains a precious cultural treasure. Though she ploughed the Atlantic and battled with her heavy cannons for 34 years – and laid buried beneath the turbulent English Channel for 437 more, bacteria and chemicals have begun eating away at her remnants, on display at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, England. Thankfully, the ship’s conservators have received a helping hand.
A new X-ray method has allowed an international team of researchers to identify zinc-sulfide nanoparticles in the ship's timbers that are contributing to the ship's decay. Until now, this information was impossible to learn from the wood...
The Mary Rose sank during a naval battle with France in 1543 and was excavated in 1982, in what remains the world's most expensive salvaging operation – an event watched by 60 million viewers on live TV. At the time, 19,000 objects from the Tudor period were fished from the sea along with the shipwreck.
Today, the remains of the ship are on display at The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth. But after more than 400 years at the bottom of the English Channel, the wooden ship's hull is vulnerable to decomposition. The threat includes deposits from metal parts on the ship and bacteria which trigger acid attacks on the timbers. The same threat applies to other cultural artefacts around the world that degrade after being found.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.ku.dk ...
I remember the wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald.
It’s in my book:
Astonishing Tales of the Sea.
It’s a coffee table book.
It folds out to be a coffee table.
What a piece of Ship...
A Danish chemist? So when he’s not working on pastry, he works on shipwrecks?
Good one! If only the media were interested in preserving the country.
Kramer?...
Are you talking about the ship “Edmund Fitzgerald” or singer Ella Fitzgerald?
In an industry known for its turnovers, I cannoli imagine how hard it is to stay working in a down economy. You donut want to be the only one without a flan for a second career.
Silly you. Of course not. You will find him at the deli counter working on Danish Hams, thin sliced. Goes good with Swiss cheese and rye (bread that is). Time for a sammich.
Interesting article except for one glaring omission. They did not tell what preservative techniques they would be using to match the decay causes they found.
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I actually watched that episode yesterday.
What are the odds of that?
I love how George tells the true story of his life to outdo a shipwreck survivor. :)
I recall an article in Smithsonian magazine years ago about the Mary Rose that said she sank on her maiden voyage in sight of land because her cannon were too heavy and not properly balanced, causing the ship to turn over and sink.
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Gonna need some Danish butter cokies to go with those sandwiches.
That was the Swedish ship Vasa. Sank on her maiden voyage because she was top heavy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
Darn right! Mmmmm. It's the right time of year for them too. And with a big glass of buttermilk or a good mug of coffee!
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