One of the first roses in 2011....

One of the first roses in 2011....

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With this "English Rose" - an Austin rose (1983) - I want to wish you all a wonderful weekend.





Quelle: wikipedia:


This article is about the first ship called 'Mary Rose'. For later ships with the same name, see HMS Mary Rose.


Homeport: Portsmouth, England

Fate: Sank in battle in 1545, salvaged in 1982, now a museum ship.

The Mary Rose was a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. After serving for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany and after being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545. While leading the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, she sank in the Solent, the straits north of the Isle of Wight. The wreck of the Mary Rose was rediscovered in 1971 and salvaged in 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. The surviving section of the ship and thousands of recovered artefacts are of immeasurable value as a Tudor-era time capsule.







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