We are excited to see how the models of the Mary Rose artefacts are further utilised going forward, but, interestingly, our current collaborative project between the Mary Rose Trust and MicroPasts does not involve an artefact from the Mary Rose. Instead the item in question is the bell that was recovered from HMS Hood – a Second World War British battle cruiser that was sunk in 1941 (almost 400 years after the Mary Rose sunk in 1545!) by the German Battleship Bismarck, during the Battle of the Denmark Strait. In 2001 the wreck was located by Blue Water Recoveries with the ship’s bell found lying on the seabed away from the hull. In August 2015, [Paul G. Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) led an expedition supported by Blue Water Recoveries](http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/10/bell-recovered-hms-hood-battleship-sunk-bismarck-1941) to retrieve the bell and, soon afterwards, the bell was sent to Mary Rose Archaeological Services for conservation.
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