Four hundred and seventy one years after it sank in the Solent in 1545, King Henry VIII’s flag ship, Mary Rose, is now, once again, accessible to the viewing public at the Mary Rose Museum in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, in Great Britain. The ship was raised from the seabed in 1982 and had undergone 34 years of preservation and restoration. 19,000 artifacts have been recovered from the ship and wreck site so far. Mary Rose sank on July 19, 1545 during the third French war. Of the 500 men aboard, only 35 survived.