Henry VIII’s Lost Warship Breaks Stunning World Record

Kypros / Kypros, Getty Images More than 400 years after sinking, Henry VIII’s prized Mary Rose has been recovered. The 600-ton warship was used during the Italian War of 1542-1546. During a defense effort, a combination of wind and flooded open gun ports led to the ship’s unfortunate descent to the bottom of the Solent waters in 1545. Francois van der Delft, Imperial ambassador and eyewitness to the sinking, wrote that the English boat had shipwrecked “through misfortune and carelessness.” Only…