HMS ''Mars'' was a two-deck 80-gun

second rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...

ship of the line of the

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, launched on 1 July 1848 at

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. She served as a supply carrier in the

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, and was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855. She then saw service in the

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.''Mars'', Dundee
. Dundee City Council. Retrieved 6 November 2008. In 1869 she was moored in the River Tay,''Mars'' Training Ship, Dundee
. Dundee City Council. Retrieved 6 November 2008. 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. She was finally sold in 1929, when she was sold and towed to

Thos. W. Ward Thos. W. Ward Ltd was a Sheffield, Yorkshire, steel, engineering and cement business, which began as coal and coke merchants. It expanded into recycling metal for Sheffield's steel industry, and then the supply and manufacture of machinery. I ...

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yard to be broken up.''Mars'', Dundee
. Dundee City Council. Retrieved 6 November 2008.

References

Citations Bibliography *Lavery, Brian (2003) ''The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. . Ships of the line of the Royal Navy Vanguard-class ships of the line Ships built in Chatham 1848 ships {{UK-line-ship-stub