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Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1840

Date closed   1843

Ports   Deptford

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Hulk abolished in 1843.

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Prison Info

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1840

Date closed   1843

Ports   Deptford

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.483905  Long.   -0.018929

County   Kent

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Critical Remarks

Hulk abolished in 1843.

Prisoner Statistics

Year 1843

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   115

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, 1842, XXXII.523), 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, 1842, XXXII.523), p.[15]; 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.[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, 1843, XLII.337), p.[13]; 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.[4]

Secondary Sources

  • Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Bowie, MD., 1993), pp. 235-255

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Prisoners

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/78

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks, Thames, Chatham

Dates: 1843

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