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Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1816

Date closed   1825

Ports   Sheerness

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Brought into service in October 1816 with the transfer of prisoners from the Portland (ID 2001). From 1823, used only for juvenile males. In 1825, the boys were transferred to the newly fitted Euryalus (ID 2013).

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Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1816

Date closed   1825

Ports   Sheerness

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.444398  Long.   0.743156

County   Kent

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Critical Remarks

Brought into service in October 1816 with the transfer of prisoners from the Portland (ID 2001). From 1823, used only for juvenile males. In 1825, the boys were transferred to the newly fitted Euryalus (ID 2013).

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Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   481

Year 1823

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   329

Principal Primary Sources

  • Papers relating to the convict establishment at Woolwich, Sheerness and Portsmouth: viz. two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1817, XVI.141), p.13; Papers relating to the convict establishment at Woolwich, Sheerness and Portsmouth: viz. two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1818, XVI.207), p.3; Papers relating to the convict establishment at Woolwich, Sheerness and Portsmouth: viz. two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1818, XVI.207), p.10; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.321), p.3; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.321), p.8; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1819-20, IV.293), p.2; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1819-20, IV.293), p.7; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1821, XXI.449), p.3; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1821, XXI.449), p.6; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1822, XXII.327), p.2; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1822, XXII.327), p.5; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1823, XV.297), p.2; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1823, XV.297), p.6; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.183), p.2; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.183), p.5; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.495), p.2; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.495), p.7; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.387), p.2; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.387), p.8

Secondary Sources

  • Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Bowie, MD., 1993), pp. 235-242

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Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/1-6

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks - Bellerophon, Sheerness 

Dates: 1824-1825

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 9/7

Collection: Home Office

Description: Convict Hulks moored at Sheerness - Retribution, Bellerophon. Also, register of prisoners.

Dates: 1802-1834

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: T38/310

Collection: Treasury

Description: Quarterly Lists, Bellerophon at Sheerness

Dates: 1816-1818

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