On the 3^rd of April years five and six from Loders school went to visit The Mary Rose at Portsmouth Historic Ships. At the entrance to The Mary Rose we were given a portable speaker that you put to your ear while you walk around and it gives lots of information. There was only half the Mary Rose there, and you couldn’t touch it because it was down below us and we were walking on a kind of balcony that had glass windows all around so we could see it all. When you looked down there were some labels on the ship and you could hear all about the different parts of the ship through the receiver.

• The ship has to be sprayed with wax and cold water for what may be another 20 years until they are able to dry the ship.

• The ship was found by a group of divers in 1945.

• It was excavated by hand in 1982.

• Only half of the boat was recovered

By Christy and Hazel.