Stirling Castle

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1840

Date closed   1855

Ports   Devonport
Portsmouth

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Devon

Attached Ship   Briton (1850-55)

Prison Info

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1840

Date closed   1855

Ports   Devonport
Portsmouth

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   50.8235  Long.   -1.1228

County   Devon

Attached Ship   Briton (1850-55)

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1843

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   366

 

Year 1848

Annual   -  

Daily Ship capacity   -   450

 

Year 1853

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   349

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.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, 1841, XVIII.629), 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, 1842, XXXII.523), 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, 1842, XXXII.523), p.11; Two reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. superintendent of ships and vessels employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLII.337), 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, 1843, XLII.337), p.6; Report of John Henry Capper, Esq. Superintendent of ships and vessles employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.397), p.2; Report of John Henry Capper, Esq. Superintendent of ships and vessles employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.315), p.2; Report of John Henry Capper, Esq. Superintendent of ships and vessles employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.491), p.2; Report of John Henry Capper, Esq. Superintendent of ships and vessles employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVIII.1), p.2; Report of the Manager of the Convict Hulk Establishment, for the year 1848 (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXIX.1), p.4; Report of the Manager of the Convict Hulk Establishment, for the year 1849 (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXIX.13), p.8; Report of the directors of convict prisons on the discipline and management of the hulk establishment. For the year 1850 (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVIII.213), p.18; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Hulks, 1853 (Parl. Papers, 1854, XXXIII.181), p.282; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Hulks, 1854 (Parl. Papers, 1854-55, XXV.33), p.338; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Hulks, 1855 (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXV.1), p.259

Secondary Sources

  • Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Bowie, MD., 1993), pp. 235-252

Management

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 7/222

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Warrants constituting and appointing Convict Prisons etc. Places for confinement of males under sentence of transportation - Portsmouth Convict Prison, Ship 'Stirling Castle' and Portsmouth Prison jointly, and Brixton House of Correction.

Dates: 1852-1853


Prisoners

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/112-129

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks - Stirling Castle, Gosport

Dates: 1852-1856


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/63-81

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks - Stirling Castle, Devonport 

Dates: 1840-1844


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/82-111

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks - Stirling Castle, Portsmouth

Dates: 1844-1852


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 2/105

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Portsmouth Prison, register of prisoners (a register for the Stirling Castle for the early years)

Dates: 1847-1853


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 2/132

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Register of prisoners on the Hulks Defence and Stirling Castle

Dates: 1843-1852


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 2/133

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Register of prisoners on the Hulks Defence and Stirling Castle

Dates: 1848-1857


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 2/134

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Register of prisoners on the Hulks Defence and Stirling Castle

Dates: 1837-1849