Scottish author Gordon Douglas, who wrote the book We'll Send Ye Tae the Mars, is searching for relatives of 6,500 homeless and destitute boys who served on the Mars Training Ship which was moored on the River Tay, near Dundee, Scotland for sixty years between 1869 and 1929. He has almost completed a second book about the fate of many of the boys, Sons of the Mars, and would like to discover and hear from some of the boys' descendants.
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