Captivity

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Overview

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1802

Date closed   1834

Ports   Portsmouth
Devonport
Plymouth

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Hampshire

Critical Remarks

A break in service between 1817 (when, in November, establishment transferred to the Leviathan (ID 2006)) and 1826. Hulk abolished 1 April 1834.

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Prison Info

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1802

Date closed   1834

Ports   Portsmouth
Devonport
Plymouth

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   50.8235  Long.   -1.1228

County   Hampshire

Critical Remarks

A break in service between 1817 (when, in November, establishment transferred to the Leviathan (ID 2006)) and 1826. Hulk abolished 1 April 1834.

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Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1828

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   367

 

Year 1833

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   445

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, State of the Prisons in England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p. 620, 627
  • 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, 1816, XVIII.319), p.5; 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, 1816, XVIII.319), p.9; 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.6; 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.10; 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.4; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.137), p.[4]; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.137), 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, 1828, XX.45), 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, 1828, XX.45), 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, 1829, XVIII.315), p.2 & 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, 1829, XVIII.315), 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, 1830, XXIII.1), 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, 1830, XXIII.1), p.9; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.439), 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, 1830-31, XII.439), 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, 1831-32, XXXIII.93), 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, 1831-32, XXXIII.93), 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, 1833, XXVIII.639), 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, 1833, XXVIII.639), 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, 1834, XLVII.15), 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, 1834, XLVII.15), 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, 1835, XLV.1), p.[3]

Secondary Sources

  • Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Bowie, MD., 1993), pp. 235-237

Prisoners

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/14-18

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks - Captivity, Plymouth

Dates: 1827-1828


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/19-39

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks - Captivity, Devonport

Dates: 1829-1834


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/8-13

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks - Captivity, Devonport

Dates: 1826-1827


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 9/3

Collection: Home Office

Description: Convict Hulks moored at Woolwich and Devonport - Captivity, Ganymede, Discovery. Also, register of prisoners.

Dates: 1821- 1833


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 9/8

Collection: Home Office

Description: Convict Hulks moored at Portsmouth - Portland, Captivity, Leviathan. Also, register of prisoners.

Dates: 1802-1836


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: T38/311-316

Collection: Treasury

Description: Quarterly Lists, Captivity at Portsmouth

Dates: 1802-1817