Cannon Recovered from Elizabethan Warship

On Friday a cannon was recovered from an Elizabethan warship off Alderney in the Channel Islands. The ship is believed to have sunk in 1592, 4 years after Elizabeth’s navy had beaten the Spanish Armada. What makes this particularly interesting is the comparison with the Mary Rose which sank less than 50 years earlier. Henry VIII’s Mary Rose had a range of different types of weapons on board, but from what they have found from the Alderney wreck the guns are much more standard. Archaeologists are speculating that it indicates that the navy was getting much more professional.

There had been a delay of several days in raising the cannon after the very sad death of Peter Le Sauteur, a diver from Jersey, who had been working on a survey of the wreck.

The BBC has more details on their website, and you can visit the website for the Alderney Elizabethan Wreck.