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单词 Convict hulk
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Convict hulk

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Prison ship

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The beached convict ship HMS Discovery at Deptford. Launched as a 10-gun sloop at Rotherhithe in 1789, the ship served as a convict hulk from 1818 until scrapped in February 1834.[1]
 Prison hulk HMS Success[2] at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1848 Woodcut of the Royal Naval Dockyard, Ireland Island, Bermuda, showing four prison hulks.
Interior of the British prison ship Jersey

A prison ship, often more precisely termed prison hulk, is a vessel (usually unseaworthy) salvaged as a prison, often to hold convicts or with the British, often civilian internees, awaiting transportation to a penal colony. This practice was popular with the British government in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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