The Mary Rose: Henry VIII's favourite warship is being destroyed by specks of iron, sulphur and zinc

The vessel was salvaged in 1982, having spent some four centuries on the seabed of the Solent, off the coast of the Isle of Wight, where she sank on July 19, 1545 in a battle against the French fleet.

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