Henry VIII's warship Mary Rose 1985

Henry VIII's warship Mary Rose back in an upright position. Champagne flowed at the Naval Base in Portsmouth as the ship was rotated the final ten degrees from the 60 degrees anfle at which she lay on the solent seabed. * 20/8/2000: The Mary Rose which was sunk by a simple gust of wind after being overladen with soldiers and left with its gun ports open, a documentary will claim. Historians have long been divided over why Henry VIII's beloved ship capsized without warning as she turned to fire on her French opponents in the Battle of the Solent. Now a team of experts assembled for Channel 4's Secrets of the Dead: What Sank the Mary Rose? has concluded her downfall was provoked by a combination of factors.