This historically significant film, made by Ilse McKee, begins with a catamaran being towed by a fishing boat towards a quay in Chichester Harbour. A small number of onlookers wait on the quayside while the boats are berthed. We then see Alexander McKee, the inspirational driving force behind the Mary Rose expedition, alongside John Barber, who donated the catamaran and a woman, who might possibly be the archeologist, Margaret Rule, toasting their new acquisition