Early Modern History

Its Fate and Future, illustrations from b&w photographs, diagrams, appendix on the armament carried, index, maps on endpapers, xii & 346 pp, sea-green boards in d/w, very good condition, Souvenir Press 1973

21.6 x 13.2 cm, 650g, ISBN 0 28562 091 6

A history of the ship, an account of its sinking, and a great deal of information on how she was located on the sea-bed (the author was one of the diving team, as well as a military historian) and explored. 

Once the ship had been positively identified, the author travelled to Sweden, where the “Vasa” had been raised in the 1960s, to start the campaign to have the “Mary Rose” raised to the surface – which eventually happened in 1982.