1. en.wikipedia.org

    Prison hulk Success [1] at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Prison hulks were decommissioned ships that authorities used as floating prisons in the 18th and 19th centuries. They were extensively used in England. The notorious hulks played a crucial role in detaining criminals. The term "prison hulk" is not synonymous with the related term convict ship.A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable ...
  2. historyextra.com

    Prison hulks: in numbers. 4,280 . The highest (average) total of inmates on prison hulks in England in a single year, 1842. Of those, 3,615 were transported to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia. 216 . The number of 10- to 15-year-olds incarcerated in hulks in England in 1841. Three of these boys were under 10 years old. 1 in 4
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  4. gouldgenealogy.com

    The first prison hulks in England appeared after a 1776 act allowed them to be used to house prisoners. The collection contains a letter book relating to the establishment of hulks written from 1847-1849 and the registers of prisoners on 19 different hulks between 1802-1849 - a total of about 200,000 records. Those covered are: Bellerophon ...
  5. nationalarchives.gov.uk

    The first civilian prison hulk, was an ex-convict transport ship of Campbell's called the Justitia and soon after, a further 50 or more were brought into service until 1850. ... The records of almost 200,000 convicts who were imprisoned on the hulks; The British Convict transportation register Database of convicts transported to Australia ...
  6. media.nationalarchives.gov.uk

    A prison hulk from 1840 - she was eventually broken up in 1857 - which largely could accommodate up to around 400 inmates. And the smaller Discovery, shown here [shows an image] at Deptford. Now this is a ten-gun sloop, it became a prison hulk in 1818 and it was broken up in 1834 and could accommodate around 200 prisoners.
  7. blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

    We explore what life was like onboard the prison hulks of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, both in Britain and Australia, using newspapers from the Archive. ... An opportunity was quickly seized, as 'she was acquired by the British Government to serve as a convict hulk at Hobson's Bay,' with 72 cells built to accommodate prisoners.
  8. navalhistoria.com

    Sep 23, 2023Throughout the American War of Independence, the number of American Patriots who perished on British prison ships exceeded the total fatalities from all the war's battles combined. ... Prison hulks were introduced in 1776 as a temporary solution to prison overcrowding in Britain. Although they were originally planned for two years, they ...
  9. digitalpanopticon.org

    The Hulks Act was periodically renewed, and in 1823 parliament authorised their use in any British colony. Hulks were established in Bermuda in 1824 and Gilbraltar in 1842; in both colonies the convicts levelled land, constructed roads and worked on dockyards. ... The English Prison Hulks. Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1970. Campbell, Charles ...
  10. militaryhistorynow.com

    The Prothée was just one of an unknown number, probably approaching 100, of decommissioned warships used by the British as prison hulks between the years 1776 and 1857. Neutered from a "she" in Abell's description, it would be mostly used to hold French prisoners of the Napoleonic wars, then American prisoners of the War of 1812 in ...
  11. library.gov.au

    What is a prison hulk? Prison hulks were floating prisons used from 1776 as temporary accommodation for prisoners from overcrowded jails. A hulk is a ship that is still afloat but unable to put to sea. The ships were decommissioned and converted warships. Conditions aboard the ships were unhealthy and unhygienic.
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