| The Mary Rose was King Henry VIII's favourite warship. Sank in 1545 and raised in 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust, she is the centrepiece of the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, England. Glen McConnachie, a conservator with the Trust, uses Leica equipment routinely in the course of his work. "We have a whole range of materials from the Mary Rose, and before we can conserve anything we have to identify it precisely as this affects the type of conservation treatment that we use. The stereomicroscope - a Leica MZ6 with Leica QWIN Lite image analysis software - is used for identifying other materials, like bits of leather, as well as for monitoring conditions. Our artefacts are measured and monitored every six months for surface cracks and we can get very accurate measurements of those surface cracks with the stereomicroscope to see if there is any movement.” The Mary Rose, a detail from a painting by William Bishop
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