The Wreck of the Mary Rose
Since the spring of 1982, The
Mary Rose Trust has worked flat out, under the sea and in the office, to plan, to raise the money for, and to achieve an almost impossible object - the recovery from the silt at the bottom of The Solent of what remains of the hull of one of King Henry VIII 's favourite battleships.
Chronicle has followed the project since 1971, when only a line of eroded timber frames, uncovered by a freak storm, denoted the site of one of the richest archaeological sites ever found in Great Britain. Tonight's film brings viewers up to date with the project and sets the scene for the live outside broadcast coverage tomorrow morning when the Mary Rose will be seen again above the surface.
Underwater photography TIM JOHNSON Film editor ROY DEVERELL Written and produced by JOHN SELWYN GILBERT
Series editor BRUCE NORMAN
(Raising the Rose, tomorrow at 9.20 am)