Mighty Wooden Warships

A 500-year journey aboard history's most famous, most sophisticated, and most heavily armed wooden warships. Voyage back to the age when wooden warships were the ultimate fighting machines. From the Mary Rose, one of the first great combat ships and Henry VIII's flagship, we learn about life on a Tudor ship from objects found during her salvage. While on HMS Victory, we learn the battle-winning tactics of Admiral Nelson, which tattered Napoleon's plans of invading Britain in 1805. Learn about the frigates HMS Trincomalee and USS Constitution and the British schooner Kathleen and May. Celebrate history's brave commanders and crews who rode these wooden wonders into battle. Witness how technological advancements in Europe and America led to longer, faster, and more heavily armed vessels.