Retribution

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Overview

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1804

Date closed   1834

Ports   Sheerness
Woolwich

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Abolished April 1834.

Prison Info

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

Critical Remarks

Abolished April 1834.

Prisoner Statistics

 

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

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, State of the Prisons in England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p. 632
  • 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.7; 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.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, 1817, XVI.141), p.11; 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.3; 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.8; 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.8; 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.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, 1821, XXI.449), p.3; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1821, XXI.449), 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, 1822, XXII.327), 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, 1822, XXII.327), 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, 1823, XV.297), 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, 1823, XV.297), 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, 1824, XIX.183), 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, 1824, XIX.183), p.4; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.495), 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, 1825, XXIII.495), 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, 1826, XXIV.387), 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, 1826, XXIV.387), p.8; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.137), p.3; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.137), p.8; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.45), p.3; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.45), 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, 1829, XVIII.315), 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, 1829, XVIII.315), p.9; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIII.1), 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, 1830, XXIII.1), p.9; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.439), 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, 1830-31, XII.439), p.9; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1831-32, XXXIII.93), p.3; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1831-32, XXXIII.93), p.10; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.639), p.3; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.639), p.8; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVII.15), 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, 1834, XLVII.15), 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, 1835, XLV.1), p.[3]

Secondary Sources

  • Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Bowie, MD., 1993), pp. 235-241

Prisoners

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