Kamis, 30 Juni 2016

Mary Rose

Completed in Portsmouth in 1512 on the orders of King Henry VIII, Mary Rose saw three decades of service in the English navy until its own retrofitted design spelled its doom.The man-of-war was a relatively new concept when the English retrofitted Mary Rose with heavy guns—and disastrous consequences

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