Leven

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Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   unknown

Date closed   1840

Ports   Deptford

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Kent

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Prison Info

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   unknown

Date closed   1840

Ports   Deptford

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.483905  Long.   -0.018929

County   Kent

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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, 1841, XVIII.629), 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, 1841, XVIII.629), p.[12]

Secondary Sources

  • Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Bowie, MD., 1993), pp. 235-254

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Prisoners

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/64-66

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks, Leven, Deptford

Dates: 1840

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