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The raising of the Mary Rose

King Henry VIII's favourite warship was brought up from the seabed in October 1982. The Mary Rose sunk during a naval battle over 400 years earlier.

It鈥檚 40 years since a wrecked English Tudor warship was brought back to the surface. On 11 October 1982, 60 million people worldwide watched the extraordinary feat live on television 鈥� the raising of the 400-year-old Mary Rose 鈥� from the seabed off the south coast of England. Susan Hulme spoke to Christopher Dobbs, one of the archaeologists who helped excavate the Mary Rose. This programme was first broadcast in 2017.

(Photo: The Mary Rose is raised above the water by a crane near Portsmouth Harbour, 11 October 1982. Credit: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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