( CNN ) -- A Tudor warship sunk off the English coast more than 400 years ago will go on display in a new museum Friday , along with thousands of artifacts recovered with the wreck . The Mary Rose , which is still undergoing conservation work , is the only 16th century warship on display in the world , according to the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard . The 500-year-old vessel was the flagship of King Henry VIII and sank in his view off the south coast near Portsmouth on July 19 , 1545 , while leading an attack against a French invasion fleet . It remained there until it was raised from the seabed in 1982 to great fanfare . Over the decades since , the wooden hull has been sprayed continuously , first with fresh water to remove salt and then with a wax solution , to prevent the timbers drying out and shrinking . That spray was turned off last month to allow the next phase of conservation to be carried out , the dockyard said . While the ship is on display , it will be dried out in a specially constructed airtight glass chamber . More than 100 tons of water will be extracted from the hull over the next four to five years , conservationists say . Once that process is complete , the walls will be removed to give visitors an unimpeded view of the ship . The new Mary Rose Museum , built at the Portsmouth dockyard at a cost of Â£27 million ( $ 40.7 million ) , also houses many of the 19,000 artifacts raised with the ship . Items on display include the skeleton of the ship 's dog , wooden bowls , leather shoes , musical instruments and combs complete with 500-year-old head lice , as well as weapons such as longbows and metal cannon . Many of the ship 's crew died when she went down . The raising of the ship and its preservation were landmarks in marine archeology , the dockyard says .
The Mary Rose , flagship of Henry VIII , was raised from the seabed in 1982 . Visitors will now be able to see the ship and thousands of objects found with her . The warship sank in 1545 while leading an attack on a French invasion fleet . The 500-year-old wreck is still undergoing conservation work .