Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Discovery prison hulk at Deptford


The forbidding form of 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.





[Prison hulk Success at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Success_prison_hulk.jpg

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