Maurice Young 5 - My impression of the whole thing was that it was so vast
The raising of the Mary Rose took place on 11th October 1982. She had lain on the seabed for over 400 years. It had taken over 10 years to excavate the ship and it's contents. Here Maurice recalls his impressions of seeing the ship for the first time out of the water.
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My impression of the whole thing was that it was so vast and people were saying, "Well it's okay for you because you'd seen the Mary Rose before." Which wasn't true, we could only at any one time see possibly six feet in either direction and that was on a good day, so we could probably by looking around through 180 degrees, we'd probably see 12 feet of the Mary Rose, maybe a little more on some occasions. But when she were there hanging up in the crane then we could see the whole thing but we were only then seeing it for the first time, exactly the same as everybody else. And hmm, the impression of it that I got at that moment, I have to be honest was.... was it worth it? But when I look at it now, I look at the museum, I'd look at the ship itself and, yes, it was well, well worth it.
The ship was buried under that mound, we were right over the top of it.
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Sometimes I could say yes, this is a hanging knee
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This fish came swimming slowly down the sternpost right in front of me
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Not only could I see them, I could touch them
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My impression of the whole thing was that it was so vast
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