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Prison Ships - Coggle Diagram
Prison Ships
Convict Hulks
8 years in use
hold prisoners
before they were punished
17th century
criminals
Atlantic Sea
Bloody Code
listed 200 crimes
punishable by death
awaiting transportation
gaols
Act of Parliament 1776
floating prisons (Hulks)
temporary solution
overcrowded gaols
Middlesex Justices
respinsible commisioning first Hulks
life in Hulks
tough
Rising 5 am in the morning
Work on deck/in yards
7 in the winter
ten hours hard labour in the summer
chained in irons
war -> American colonies
1775
route America -> closed off
research question
What did the Prison Ships affect?