Mary Rose salvage operation - Lifting frame launched

Title

Mary Rose salvage operation - Lifting frame launched

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

28 Sep 1982

Year of production

1982

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Duration

00:02:55

Description

John Greenwood reports on the launching of the lifting frame which will lift the wreck of the stricken Tudor warship Mary Rose from the bottom of the seabed off the coast of Portsmouth. Speakers include: director of the recovery operation, Colonel Wendell Lewis; cradle engineer Ron Crocker.

Contributors

John Greenwood; Wendell Lewis; Ron Crocker

Keywords

Shipwrecks; Portsmouth; Archaeology; Warships; Ships; Salvage; Equipment; Mary Rose; Solent; Underwater archaeology

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