9:30am Sunday 14th March 2010
By Clare Kennedy
A LOST dog is returning home to a Hampshire museum after nearly 500 years.
The two-year-old mongrel who sailed aboard the ill-fated Mary Rose is returning home to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and the Mary Rose Museum after 465 years away.
The painstakingly preserved and reconstructed skeleton of the Mary Rose’s dog will be on display from March 26.
Staff at the Mary Rose Trust named the old sea dog ‘Hatch’ as she was discovered trapped in the sliding door of the carpenter’s cabin of the Mary Rose where she had lain since the ship sank in in 1545.
John Lippiett, chief executive of the Mary Rose Trust, said: “Hatch is just one of 19,000 extraordinary Tudor treasures recovered with the wreck of the Mary Rose, but she has never been on display in Portsmouth simply because we have not had the room.”
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