Prison Type Convict Hulk
Date opened 1804
Date closed 1834
Ports Sheerness
Woolwich
Map location in the vicinity
County Kent
Abolished April 1834.
Prison Type Convict Hulk
Date opened 1804
Date closed 1834
Ports Sheerness
Woolwich
Map location in the vicinity
Lat. 51.444398 Long. 0.743156
County Kent
Abolished April 1834.
Year 1818
Annual -
Daily Daily average - 514
Year 1823
Annual -
Daily Daily average - 546
Year 1828
Annual -
Daily Daily average - 573
Year 1833
Annual -
Daily Daily average - 484
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: HO 8/1-39
Collection: Home Office
Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks - Retribution, Sheerness
Dates: 1824-1834
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: HO 9/6
Collection: Home Office
Description: Convict Hulks moored at Woolwich. Index to register of prisoners on the Retribution.
Dates: 1803-1836
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: HO 9/7
Collection: Home Office
Description: Convict Hulks moored at Sheerness - Retribution, Bellerophon. Also, register of prisoners.
Dates: 1802-1834
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM 2/135
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Hulks: register of prisoners on the Hulk Retribution
Dates: 1837-1841
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: T38/329-330
Collection: Treasury
Description: Quarterly Lists, Retribution at Woolwich
Dates: 1810-1814
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: T38/331-332
Collection: Treasury
Description: Quarterly Lists, Retribution at Sheerness
Dates: 1814-1818
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: T38/333-335
Collection: Treasury
Description: Quarterly Lists, Retribution at Woolwich
Dates: 1804-1809