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The sinking of the Mary Rose

The Evolution of Henry VIII's Royal Navy

On 19th July 1545, while Henry VIII watched, the Mary Rose sank very quickly, in the piece of water between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight called the Solent. The Mary Rose was part of an English fleet trying to stop the French ships landing on the Isle of Wight, but sank before firing a single shotc

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Here is a shot clip on the Mary Rose

Elizabeth I

While Henry VIII had launched the Royal Navy, his successors King Edward VI and Queen Mary I had ignored it and it was little more than a system of coastal defense.

Elizabeth thought naval strength was a very good thing.

Elizabeth I, in 1559 had 39 ships, and there were plans to build another 30, By the 1580s,Spain had reached the breaking point, In 1588, Philip II of Spain launched the Spanish Armada against England, but after a running battle lasting over a week, the Armada was defeated.

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Edward and Mary

Edward VI and Mary I added little new to their father's navy. Mary maintained the building program, the navy performed outstandingly but it did not prevent the loss of Calais in the war with France of 1557 to 1559.

The Mary Rose

  • Henry VIII’s finest ship was the Mary Rose and it was the most famous in the Tudor Navy.
  • It was built from 1509 – 1511 and was Britain's first gunship.
  • It held a massive 415 men!
  • It was 45 meters long and had 45 masts and 91 cannons.
  • 600 trees from the New Forest and Beer Forest were used to build Mary Rose.

The Creation of the Royal Navy

Gunports

The invention of gunports meant that guns could be carried much lower down in the ship, so that it was much more stable, and less likely to tip over. The first ship to carry the new guns and fight in this way was the Mary Rose.

  • The Royal Navy was created by Henry VIII
  • King Henry VIII became known as the “Father of the English Navy”.
  • Henry VIII's father, Henry VII, began a program of building warships for a navy.
  • When Henry VII died in 1509, there were 5 Royal ships, when Henry VIII died in 1547, there were 40 Royal ships

The Royal Dockyards

  • The main dockyard was Portsmouth.
  • In 1513 – 1514, Henry VIII built two dockyards on the Thames to build warships. These were at Woolwich and Deptford.
  • It was very close to Henry’s palace at Greenwich.

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