I remember being on holiday on the Isle of Wight in the summer it was being raised. There was a massive crane that had to be floated over from somewhere - Denmark? - called Tog Mor. I remember sailing quite far out in the Solent in a borrowed Mirror dinghy and looking at it - though still from a fair way off. I remember the finding of the Mary Rose also fed into the massive wave of tabloid-fueled nationalism because of the naval taskforce in the Falklands, too. Come on Eileen was being played everywhere constantly.