⏳ History slept beneath the Solent. Timbers that whispered of Tudor life. Echoes of a crew who never returned. Painstakingly lifted from silence and safeguarded, piece by piece. Each object uncovered a truth, each find rekindled a story. The Mary Rose prevails because her story refused to stay buried. The past isn’t just remembered here, it rises from the depths to meet you. This winter, discover it for yourself. 📍 Portsmouth Historic Dockyard https://orlo.uk/PHD_VeBtM | Portsmouth Historic Doc

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📆 On 21 December 1872, HMS Challenger sailed out of Portsmouth under Captain George Nares, beginning the world’s first major scientific expedition to study the deep ocean. Refitted earlier that year at Sheerness Dockyard, Challenger had her guns removed and her spaces rebuilt as laboratories, specimen rooms and photographic studios. Captain Nares led the naval side of the voyage, while the scientific work was headed by Charles Wyville Thomson and the naturalist John Murray, supported by three o

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