Warrior

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Overview

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1840

Date closed   1855

Ports   Woolwich

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Kent

Attached Ship   Sulphur (washing)

Critical Remarks

On the break up of this hulk in 1855, prisoners sent to Chatham Convict Prison (ID 1007)

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Prison Info

Prison Type   Convict Hulk

Date opened   1840

Date closed   1855

Ports   Woolwich

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.495394  Long.   0.070793

County   Kent

Attached Ship   Sulphur (washing)

Image Attribution   'Warrior Hulk' in Mayhew and Binny, Criminal Prisons of London (1862), facing p. 256

Critical Remarks

On the break up of this hulk in 1855, prisoners sent to Chatham Convict Prison (ID 1007)

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Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1843

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   534

 

Year 1848

Annual   -  

Daily Ship capacity   -   450

 

Year 1853

Annual   -  

Daily Daily average   -   421

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.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, 1841, XVIII.629), 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, 1842, XXXII.523), 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, 1842, XXXII.523), p.13; 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.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, 1843, XLII.337), p.7; 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.3 & 4; 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.5; Report of the Manager of the Convict Hulk Establishment, for the year 1849 (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXIX.13), p.6; 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.11; 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.258; 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.312; 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.234

Additional Primary Sources

  • Inquiry into the State of the Convict Establishment at Woolwich (Parl. Papers, 1847, XVIII.1, 547)
  • Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life (London, 1862), p. 229

Secondary Sources

  • Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Bowie, MD., 1993), pp. 235-253

Prisoners

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 8/62-128

Collection: Home Office

Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks - Warrior, Woolwich

Dates: 1839-1856


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 9/12

Collection: Home Office

Description: Letter book for the Ganymede and Warrior Convict Hulks

Dates: 1837-1844