America’s oldest warship, sunk in 1776, is getting a 250th-birthday makeover.
Conservator Angela Paola is lying on her back under the 16-tonne gunboat, picking debris from between its nearly 250-year-old planks. She is wearing blue surgical gloves, grimy white overalls, and a half-face respirator.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/americas-oldest-warship-sunk-in-1776-is-getting-a-250th-birthday-makeover/5JVEX2IRT5DJ5IWVZHCAGGMNI4/ #globalmusum #maritimehistory #conservation #museums #USA250
At least one of the officers on board the Mary Rose owned a pewter chamber pot, presumably because he didn't want to make his way to the heads when nature called.
Though looking at the state of it, you have to wonder what he was drinking!
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These Men dove to the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck decades ago. Their stories
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