Portland

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Overview

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1802

Date closed   1816

Ports   Langston Harbour

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Hampshire

Critical Remarks

In October 1816, establishment transferred to the Bellerophon (ID 2005).

Related Prisons

Prison Info

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1802

Date closed   1816

Ports   Langston Harbour

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   50.818056  Long.   -1.008333

County   Hampshire

Critical Remarks

In October 1816, establishment transferred to the Bellerophon (ID 2005).

Related Prisons

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, State of the Prisons in England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p. 630
  • 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.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.6

Secondary Sources

  • Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Bowie, MD., 1993), pp. 235-238

Prisoners

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: T38/324-328

Collection: Treasury

Description: Quarterly Lists, Portland at Portsmouth

Dates: 1802-1816