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A prison ship, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees. Some prison ships were hul
The beached convict ship HMS Discovery at Deptford. Launched as a 10-gun sloop at Rotherhithe in 1789, the ship served as a convict hulk from 1818 until scrapped in February 1834.
Prison ship Success at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1848 Woodcut of the Royal Naval Dockyard, Ireland Island, Bermuda, showing four prison hulks
Interior of the British prison ship Jersey
Hulk (ship type)
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A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of sailing. 'Hulk' may be used to describe a ship that has been launched but not completed, an abandoned wreck or shell, or a ship whose propulsion syste
Prison ship
…vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees. Some prison ships were hulked. While many nations have deployed prison ships over time, the practice was most widespread in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, as the government sought…
A hulk moored in Toulon harbour, 19th century.
Portsmouth Harbour with prison hulks, c. 1814
A fleet of ships and hulks in Portsmouth Harbour, c. 1902
HMS Clyde Arriving at Sheerness After the Nore Mutiny, 30 May 1797, depicting sheer hulks positioned to make a lift (painted in 1830)