Here we wrap up our long discussion of prison ships and prison hulks in the British Empire. 

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Sources:

Forbes, Thomas R. "Coroners' Inquisitions on the Deaths of Prisoners in the Hulks at Portsmouth, England, in 1817 - 1827." Journal of the History of Medicine, July 1978, pp. 356 - 365

Foxhall, Katherine. "From Convicts to Colonists: The Health of Prisoners and the Voyage to Australia, 1823 - 1853." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vo. 39, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 1 - 19

Hobsbawm, E.J. and George Rudé. Captain Swing. Phoenix Press, 2001.

James, Jeff. "'Raising Sand, Soil and Gravel' - Pardon Refusers On-Board Prison Hulks (1776 - 1815)." Family & Community History, vol. 20/1, April 2017

Townsend, Norma and David Kent. "The Men of the Eleanor, 1831: A Case Study of the Hulks and Voyage to New South Wales." The Great Circle, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 109 - 119

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