Tudor sea burial

On Sunday, July 19, 1545, during the great naval battle off Portsmouth between the fleets of Francis I and Henry VIII, one of England's mightiest ships heeled over and sank. She was the Mary Rose, named by Henry after his sister.
Gross mishandling of the vessel as she hoisted sail and turned towards the French fleet seems to have been the cause of the disaster; but no one really knows.
The four-storey fighting castle. itself perched on top of two gundecks, resisted all attempts at salvaging her soon after her disappearance. Even well-equipped Venetian engineers had tagive up. So the Mary Rose passed out of history -but not quite.
In 1965, Alexander McKee determined to find out what was once the pride of Henry VIII and proof of his military and naval genius. This hook is the exciting story of his successful quest.
It is not so much the account of an exercise in undersea