Laurel

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Overview

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1802

Date closed   1820

Ports   Gosport

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Hampshire

Attached Ship   Sagesse

Critical Remarks

In 1820, replaced by the York (ID 2007).

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Prison Info

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1802

Date closed   1820

Ports   Gosport

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   50.797972  Long.   -1.118852

County   Hampshire

Attached Ship   Sagesse

Critical Remarks

In 1820, replaced by the York (ID 2007).

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Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   389

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, State of the Prisons in England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p. 621;
  • 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; 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.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, 1819, XVII.321), 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, XVII.321), 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, 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.6

Secondary Sources

  • Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Bowie, MD., 1993), pp. 235-239

Prisoners

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 9/9

Collection: Home Office

Description: Convict Hulks moored at Portsmouth - Laurel, York, Hardy. Also, register of prisoners.

Dates: 1802-1836


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: T38/318-322

Collection: Treasury

Description: Quarterly Lists, Laurel at Portsmouth

Dates: 1804-1818