Prudentia

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Overview

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   unknown

Date closed   unknown

Ports   Woolwich
Langston Harbour

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Kent

Prison Info

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   unknown

Date closed   unknown

Ports   Woolwich
Langston Harbour

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.495394  Long.   0.070793

County   Kent

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p. 632

Secondary Sources

  • Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Bowie, MD., 1993), pp. 235-268

Prisoners

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 9/4

Collection: Home Office

Description: Convict Hulks moored at Woolwich - Prudentia, Retribution and Justitia. Also, register of prisoners.

Dates: 1803-1836


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: T38/333-335

Collection: Treasury

Description: Quarterly Lists, Prudentia at Woolwich

Dates: 1804-1809