ENGLISH PRISON HULKS

Australian National Maritime Museum
Here is a list of sources in the Museum library that will help you to answer the following questions about convict ships. Where was it built and when? What sort of ship was it? Is there an picture available? What happened to it? What other voyages did it make?

Basics on British Hulks - SAG
An introduction to the subject of the British Hulks including the conditions on the hulks, the Hulks themselves and a list for further reading.

The Intolerable Hulks
The British government deactivated the last of these doleful floating dungeons in the mid part of the 19th century. More than a hundred years passed before appearance of a fully documented book-length account of this ignominious episode in British social history. The Intolerable Hulks is the book that answered that need.