This book was published in the early 1980s, around the time that the Mary Rose Trust was planning an expedition to raise the Mary Rose from where she rested in the Solent outside of Portsmouth Harbour. It contains a history of the ship itself and of the various crews and expeditions that attempted to find her position, as well as the process for recovering and preserving various artefacts aboard. It's a very 1980s book, with lots of black-and-white photos and a sort of grainy feel to the whole thing. The text itself is very readable, but I imagine there are more up-to-date books about the Mary Rose now that the ship has actually been raised and is in a museum in Portsmouth. ( )