‘There are no gaping holes in the ship where a French shot might have hit... but we’ve only got half a ship, so we can’t say any damage happened in any other place. We don’t know what damage might have been done.’ - Evidence A, ‘To sink a ship like this with one or two hits would be astonishing.’ - Evidence B, Our experts have worked out that the weight of the new guns had made the ship unstable [...] but the weight alone was not enough to sink her.’ - Evidence C, There were 700 men aboard the ship. The usual crew of 415 plus 300 heavily armed soldiers were concentrated in the bow and the stern [front and back of the ship]. I saw the ship heel over as she turned and only 36 were saved - Evidence D, New gun ports were cut, low down, in each side of the Mary Rose to take big guns. It was hard to make them watertight. It seemed odd to be cutting holes low in the side of the ship - Evidence E, When the archaeologist recovered the Mary Rose, all the main gun ports were fitted with lids. To their surprise, the lids were bound open, indicating that they could have been open when she sank.’ - Evidence F, ‘The ship faced towards the harbour when she was discovered. Her position, in conjunction with the evidence from the guns recovered, suggests she sank as she was executing a turn while engaging the enemy - Evidence G, the Mary Rose capsized accidently because of the negligence or lack of discipline of her crew. Sir George Carew on board the Mary Rose was asked why the ship was leaning to one side. He replied, “I have the sort of knaves I cannot rule.” - Evidence H,

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