HMS Mars (1848)

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Name: HMS Mars
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Laid down: December 1839
Launched: 1 July 1848
Fate: Sold, 1926
General characteristics
Class and type: Vanguard-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 2576 tons (2617.3 tonnes)
Length: 190 ft (58 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 56 ft 9 in (17.3 m)
Depth of hold: 22 ft 6 in (6.9 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full 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
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Mars.

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. She served there as a training ship until 1929, when she was towed to Inverkeithing to be broken up.[1][2][3].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dundee City Council
  2. ^ Dundee City Council
  3. ^ Dundee City Council
  • 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.
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