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She served as a prison ship from 1794, a prison hospital ship from 1801, returned to being a prison ship in 1803 and was lent to the Transport Board in 1810. In 1811, she was still a Prison Hospital Ship (death on board of POW Pascal FURIC, a French sailor, "phthisis pulmonalis", on 6 May 1811) ref.: TNA ADM 103/357. HMS Perseus: 1813–1824 ...
During the Revolutionary War, the British maintained a series of prison ships in New York Harbor and jails on shore for prisoners of war. [5] [6] Due to a combination of neglect, poor conditions on the ships and disease, thousands of American prisoners of war died onboard the prison ships and jails, more than in all the engagements of the American Revolutionary War combined.
The fees paid to the ship owners were so low that only the worst and most decrepit ships were utilised. [ 2 ] English Parliamentary records indicate that the average rate paid by the government to hire a ship for convict service in 1816 was £6 1s 9d per vessel ton (equivalent to £590 in 2023), with tonnages typically between 372 and 584.
HMS Jersey was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment of dimensions at Plymouth Dockyard, and launched on 14 June 1736. [1] She saw action in the War of Jenkins' Ear and the Seven Years' War , before being converted to a hospital ship in 1771.
The ship was the first of three sailing for the British crown off Florida that were lost during the war. Those failed attempts to save it may have helped preserve its story.
The first British use of a prison ship was the privately owned Tayloe, engaged by the Home Office in 1775 via contract with her owner, Duncan Campbell. [19] Tayloe was moored in the Thames with the intention that she be the receiving point for all inmates whose sentences of transportation to the Americas had been delayed by the American Rebellion.
A wrecked seagoing vessel discovered decades ago off the Florida Keys has recently been identified as a British warship that sank in the 18th century. National Park Service archaeologists used new ...
HMS Ganymede was a British prison hulk which was moored in Chatham Harbour in Kent, England.HMS Ganymede was the former French 450 ton frigate Hébé (20 guns, pierced for 34), which, under command of Lieutenant Bretonneuire, was captured by the British frigate Loire on 6 February 1809 while en route from Bordeaux to San Domingo, carrying 600 barrels of flour.