Mary Rose is identified as a carrack and compared with HMS Victory to show how much smaller an early sixteenth-century capital ship was. Her varied bronze and wrought-iron weapons came from craft production, with different guns serving different ranges and roles. Her sinking followed a cumulative failure involving rebuild, loading, weather, stability, and crew experience. The loss makes seaworthiness a question of the whole ship-and-crew system.
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Mary Rose: growth, mixed guns, and cumulative risk
Mary Rose combines the growing size and firepower of sixteenth-century warships with the interacting risks that could sink them.