Nine ships of the
Royal Navy have been named Mary Rose. The first is thought to have been named after
Mary Tudor, sister of King
Henry VIII of England, and the
rose, the symbol of the
Tudor dynasty. Later Mary Roses are named after the first.
Mary Rose (1509) was a
carrack launched in 1509. She was rebuilt in 1536, but sank in a battle against the French in the
Solent in 1545. Part of her structure was raised in 1982 and is preserved in
Portsmouth.
In the 1894 novel The Captain of the Mary Rose, by
William Laird Clowes, Mary Rose was a battleship (similar to the Chilean Capitán Prat) bought by the Royal Navy to replace losses after a surprise attack by the French.
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list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
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