Mary Rose relics going on display

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A urethral syringe used for curing syphilis, a perfectly restored comb with nits still inside and a bowl with graffiti marks made by the sailor who owned it are among the items to have been carefully preserved.

The Mary Rose Trust unveiled the items to mark the launch of an appeal to raise the remaining £4 million needed to build a new £35 million museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Hampshire, to house the ship's remains and artefacts.

Other items revealed by the Trust include a giant wooden spoon used to stir a cauldron of porridge and an extremely-well preserved leather "manbag".

Also being shown are musical instruments which would have been played on board, including parts of a fiddle as well as a wooden tabor pipe which is in such good condition it could still be played today.

The recorder-like instrument would have been accompanied by a drummer and a drumstick was found stored inside the pipe.

The wooden bowl has several marks inside it which would have been made by an illiterate sailor.

Other items unveiled include bones from a rat that failed to flee the sinking ship, a razor and mirror and linen bandages which have solidified but still smell of the medicines they were soaked in.

The current hall housing the Tudor warship at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard closed to the public last month to allow work on the project, which was awarded a £21 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant, to begin.

The existing museum, which will remain open while the ship hall is rebuilt, has space to display only 6% of the 19,000 artefacts recovered from the Mary Rose while the new museum would hold about 60% of the items, including those newly revealed.