Mary rose wood biography for kids
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The life of the Mary Rose
1510 – 1520
The birth of the Royal Navy
Henry VIII was an enthusiastic shipbuilder, whose pride in his “Army by Sea” would see his fleet grow from five at the start of his reign to 53 by the time of his death in 1547. While he may have had many ships, it is the Mary Rose that is remembered as his favourite. Notably, the life of the Mary Rose (1510-1545) coincides almost exactly with the reign of Henry VIII (r.1509-1547).
Before the development of a full-time Navy, English kings relied upon requisitioning merchant vessels in times of need. This was certainly cheaper than building, maintaining and manning ships in times of peace, but it was inefficient and difficult to mobilise. With the threat of Scotland to the north and France to the south, Henry VIII began to build his Navy as soon as he came to the throne.
Construction and war: 1510-1520
The Mary Rose and Peter Pomegranate
The earliest reference to the Mary Rose is 29th January 1510, in a letter ordering the construction of “two new ships”. These ships would become the Mary Rose and her ‘sister’ ship, the Peter Pomegranate. The ships were built in Portsmouth, at the dockyard established by Henry VII and what is now Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. This makes th
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Maryrose Wood
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Rose Mary Woods
Personal secretary to President Richard Nixon (1917-2005)
Rose Mary Woods | |
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Woods, 1970s | |
In office January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974 | |
President | Richard Nixon |
Preceded by | Gerri Whittington |
Succeeded by | Dorothy E. Downton |
Born | (1917-12-26)December 26, 1917 Sebring, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | January 22, 2005(2005-01-22) (aged 87) Alliance, Ohio, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Rose Mary Woods (December 26, 1917 – January 22, 2005) was Richard Nixon's secretary from his days in Congress in 1951 through the end of his political career. Before H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman became the operators of Nixon's presidential campaign, Woods was Nixon's gatekeeper.[1]
Early life and connection to Nixon
[edit]Rose Mary Woods was born in northeastern Ohio in the small pottery town of Sebring on December 26, 1917.[2] Her brother was Joseph I. Woods, a sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, and longtime member of the Cook County Board.[3]
Following graduation from McKinley High School, Woods worked for Royal China, Inc., the city's largest employer. She had been engaged to marry, but her fiancé died during World War II. To escape the memories of her hometown, she moved to Washington, D