Wallpaper Noorder Scheepvaart Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
On 4 February 1781 was the Dutch ship of the line Mars commanded by captain Count van Bijland flagship of rear admiral Willem Krul attacked by the British ships of the line HMS Monarch and Panther and the frigate Sybil and after a fierce fight captured by the British. Afterwards she was commissioned in the Royal British Navy as the HMS Mars. The Dutch Mars left the island St. Eustatius escorting a convoy.
Built by L. van Zwijndrecht at the navy yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1763, of the Admiralty of Rotterdam, dimensions 160 x 44 x 19 feet, an armament of 60 guns and a crew numbering 418 men.
