Rope, Arrows, Bows, and a Ship's Anchor, Mary Rose Museum, Porthsmouth, England, April 2015
In the new museum, multilevel areas of the ship are recreated with the artifacts discovered there. In this image, you can see the antiboarding netting above the deck. Wikipedia notes, "What turned the sinking into a major tragedy in terms of lives lost was the anti-boarding netting that covered the upper decks in the waist (the midsection of the ship) and the sterncastle. With the exception of the men who were stationed in the tops in the masts, most of those who managed to get up from below deck were trapped under the netting; they would have been in view of the surface, and their colleagues above, but with little or no chance to break through, and were dragged down with the ship. Out of a crew of at least 400, fewer than 35 escaped, a catastrophic casualty rate of over 90%."
Rope, Arrows, Bows, and a Ship's Anchor, Mary Rose Museum, Porthsmouth, England, April 2015
In the new museum, multilevel areas of the ship are recreated with the artifacts discovered there. In this image, you can see the antiboarding netting above the deck. Wikipedia notes, "What turned the sinking into a major tragedy in terms of lives lost was the anti-boarding netting that covered the upper decks in the waist (the midsection of the ship) and the sterncastle. With the exception of the men who were stationed in the tops in the masts, most of those who managed to get up from below deck were trapped under the netting; they would have been in view of the surface, and their colleagues above, but with little or no chance to break through, and were dragged down with the ship. Out of a crew of at least 400, fewer than 35 escaped, a catastrophic casualty rate of over 90%."