Life as a convict on an 1800s prison ship was brutal – and hard labour even worse. Squalid and overcrowded conditions, inadequate food and punishment for ill behaviour were bad enough. But being aboard these Victorian 'hulks,' as they were called, was only half the story of misery awaiting a man condemned to be interred on these decommissioned old war ships on the River Thames. Punishment, if your body could take it, was hard labour as well.

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CC BY - Coldbath Fields Prison, dormitory, A small rowing boat is taking people to a prison ship. Engraving by George Cooke after Samuel Prout by Wellcome Collection; Portsmouth HMS Victory (Rear) by xmax
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