Commander Douglas V Duff with remainder of 'Mars' figurehead.

Commander Douglas V Duff with remainder of 'Mars'
Commander Douglas V Duff with remainder of 'Mars'
Commander Douglas V Duff with remainder of 'Mars'
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Commander Douglas V Duff with remainder of 'Mars' figurehead.
Commander Douglas V Duff (left) and BBC official with remainder of 'Mars' figurehead, taken in 1958 or 1959.

Douglas Valder Duff (1901–1978) became a broadcaster, journalist and author of fiction for young adults following a career in the Merchant Navy, police force, and wartime service in the Royal Naval Reserve.

HMS 'Mars' was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 October 1794 at Deptford Dockyard.

Mars fought at Trafalgar in 1805 where she was heavily damaged as she took fire from five different French and Spanish seventy-fours. Among the 29 killed and 69 wounded in the action were her captain, George Duff who was killed and Lieutenant James Black of Anstruther who was wounded.

In 1806, on service in the Channel fleet the ship took part in an action off Chasseron which led to the capture of four French ships. She afterwards served off Portugal and in the Baltic Sea before being broken up in 1823.

James Black brought the figurehead back to Anstruther where it stood in the garden of his house, Marsfield. The house is now occupied by Anstruther Golf Club.
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