Adventures of a teenage author...

This is Marta, author of the Darkwoods series and of Marta's Blog. I created this blog specifically for blogging about my 2015 study abroad adventures in Europe, but it's becoming the blog for all my travels. I hope you enjoy all the pictures and stories!

Friday, August 28, 2015

The Mary Rose

The Mary Rose was the pride of King Henry VIII's navy. He named her Mary for the Virgin Mary and his favorite sister Mary, and Rose for the red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York, which were both incorporated into the Tudor rose, which is both red and white. (Confused yet? Try reading a book about the War of the Roses, the war that put Henry VIII's father on England's throne.) Anyway, the Mary Rose sank off the coast of England. Half of it was rediscovered and raised to be carefully preserved, and many artifacts from the ship are now on display in the museum. (That link says there's no evidence the ship was named after Henry's sister, but I definitely remember reading at the museum that he named the ship after his sister... Hm. Another mystery of history.)

Wax replica of Henry VIII




And this is Hatch - the skeleton of the dog the crew found in a hatch.









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