Editing Mary Rose (section)

=== Maintenance and "in ordinary" ===

The ''Mary Rose'' was kept in reserve from 1522 to 1545. She was once more caulked and repaired in 1527 in a newly dug dock at Portsmouth and her [[longboat]] was repaired and trimmed. Little documentation about the ''Mary Rose'' between 1528 and 1539 exists. A document written by [[Thomas Cromwell]] in 1536 specifies that the ''Mary Rose'' and six other ships were "made new" during his service under the king, though it is unclear which years he was referring to and what "made new" actually meant. A later document from January 1536 by an anonymous author states that the ''Mary Rose'' and other ships were "new made", and dating of timbers from the ship confirms some type of repair being done in 1535 or 1536. This would have coincided with the controversial [[dissolution of the monasteries]] that resulted in a major influx of funds into the royal treasury.{{sfnp|Marsden|2003|pp=15–16}} The nature and extent of this repair is unknown. Many experts, including [[Margaret Rule]], the project leader for the raising of the ''Mary Rose'', wrongly presumed that it meant a complete rebuilding from clinker planking to carvel planking, and that it was only after 1536 that the ship took on the form that it had when it sank and that was eventually recovered in the 20th century. Marsden has speculated that it could even mean that the ''Mary Rose'' was originally built in a style that was closer to 15th-century ships, with a rounded, rather than square, stern and without the main deck gunports.<ref>{{harvp|Marsden|2003|p=142}}; for examples of authors that have stated that the ship went through considerable alterations in 1536, see also p. 16.</ref>