Money to Preserve the Mary Rose and Cutty Sark

The January 26th NY Times reports that the British heritage Lottery is setting aside some large funds to preserve two of Britain's historic ships.

Ten million pounds ($19.7 million) will go to the Cutty Sark which was gutted by fire this past May. The ship is permanently berthed in a dry dock in Greenwich, England.

A whopping $21 million pounds ($41.4 million) will go to King Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, which sand in 1545 and was raised in 1982. The money will go to a museum to house the ship and the artifacts found in it.

I was fortunate enough to get to visit the Cutty Sark (which I always called the Cutty Shark) back in July of 2006. I'm glad money is being set aside to accomplish reconstruction.