In this episode, Graeme Hill is joined by maritime storyteller John McCrystal for a vivid account of one of history’s most famous shipwrecks: the Mary Rose. Together, they explore how Henry VIII’s great Tudor warship was built, how it came to sink so suddenly during the Battle of the Solent in 1545, and why its rediscovery centuries later became one of the most remarkable achievements in marine archaeology. From the engineering ambition of the ship itself to the human stories preserved in its wreckage, the conversation brings the Mary Rose to life as both a military tragedy and an extraordinary time capsule of Tudor England.