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HMS Mars (1848)

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Vanguard-class ship of the line of the British Royal Navy, launched on 1 July 1848 For other ships with the same name, see HMS Mars.
Mars as a training ship on River Tay, circa 1902
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Mars
BuilderChatham Dockyard
Laid downDecember 1839
Launched1 July 1848
FateSold, 1929
General characteristics
Class and typeVanguard-class ship of the line
Tons burthen2576 bm
Length190 ft (58 m) (gundeck)
Beam56 ft 9 in (17.30 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • 78 guns:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 32 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 4 × 18 pdr carronades

HMS Mars was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 July 1848 at Chatham Dockyard.

She served as a supply carrier in the Crimean War, and was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855. She then saw service in the Mediterranean. In 1869 she was moored in the River Tay, off Woodhaven. Here she served as a training ship for boys aged ten to sixteen from across Scotland, with up to 400 on board at any one time; these boys were usually homeless, orphans, or delinquents. She was finally sold in 1929, when she was sold and towed to Thos. W. Ward's Inverkeithing yard to be broken up.

Citations

  1. ^ Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 191.
  2. "Mars, Dundee". Dundee City Council. Archived from the original on 1 March 2006. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
  3. "Mars Training Ship, Dundee". Dundee City Council. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
  4. "From Mars to Dundee: The prison ship that shaped generations". The Herald. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  5. Longair, Bill (March 2023). "A Mars boy: from the streets of Dundee to the battlefields of South Africa". Orders & Medals Research Society Journal. 62 (1): 26. ISSN 1474-3353.
  6. "Mars, Dundee". Dundee City Council. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2008.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
Vanguard-class ships of the line


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