HMS Mars (1848) explained

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.^[1] In 1869 she was moored in the River Tay,^[2] 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.^[3] ^[4] She was finally sold in 1929, when she was sold and towed to Thos. W. Ward's Inverkeithing yard to be broken up.^[5]

References

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. .

Notes and References

Web site: Mars, Dundee. https://web.archive.org/web/20060301201202/http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/photodb/wc1101.htm. 1 March 2006. Dundee City Council. 6 November 2008.
Web site: Mars Training Ship, Dundee. https://web.archive.org/web/20081201152521/http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/photodb/wc2143.htm . 1 December 2008. Dundee City Council. 6 November 2008.
Web site: From Mars to Dundee: The prison ship that shaped generations. The Herald. 2019-10-27. 2023-11-16.
Longair . Bill . March 2023 . A Mars boy: from the streets of Dundee to the battlefields of South Africa. 26. Orders & Medals Research Society Journal. 62 . 1. 1474-3353.
Web site: Mars, Dundee. https://web.archive.org/web/20081201134813/http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/photodb/wc2146.htm. 1 December 2008. Dundee City Council. 6 November 2008.