Cumberland

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Overview

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1830

Date closed   1833

Ports   Chatham

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Kent

Attached Ship   Canada (1830-33)

Critical Remarks

In 1833, the Cumberland was renamed Fortitude (ID 2015)

Related Prisons

Prison Info

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1830

Date closed   1833

Ports   Chatham

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.392451  Long.   0.523815

County   Kent

Attached Ship   Canada (1830-33)

Critical Remarks

In 1833, the Cumberland was renamed Fortitude (ID 2015)

Related Prisons

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1833

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   834

Principal Primary Sources

  • 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.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, 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

Prisoners

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: ADM6/418

Collection: Admiralty

Description: Register of convicts in the hulk Cumberland, with gaolers' reports

Dates: 1830-1833


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: ADM6/419

Collection: Admiralty

Description: Index to Cumberland Register

Dates: 1830-1833


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/23-37

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks, Cumberland, ChathamĀ 

Dates: 1830-1833


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 9/1

Collection: Home Office

Description: Convict Hulks moored at Chatham - Ganymede, Dolphin and Cumberland. Also, register of prisoners.

Dates: 1820-1833