convict ship
Floating penal vessel
A convict ship was a vessel used to transport convicted criminals to penal colonies, particularly from Britain to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
Conditions aboard were notoriously harsh—overcrowding, disease, and high mortality rates made the voyage itself a punishment.
His ancestors arrived on a convict ship in the early 1800s.
- transportedMoved between locations
- penalRelating to punishment
- penal colonyDistant settlement for exiled criminals
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- shacklesMetal bonds for prisoners
hulk · chains · ball and chain · leg irons · felons · Australia · Botany Bay · Norfolk Island · prisoners · voyage · hold · below decks · irons · transportation · sentence · hard labor · exile · galley
- historic travelGrand Tour, carriage, pilgrimages, wagon, Silk Road
- imprisonmentprison, jail, prisoners, cells, captivity
- shipsvessel, freighter, tanker, oil tanker, frigate
- Penal Coloniespenal colony, penal settlement, transportees, Botany Bay, Norfolk Island
- penal historyprison, prisons, gaols, jails, penitentiaries
convict shippassenger liner
Ship transporting paying travelers
cruise ship · luxury liner · emigrant ship · ocean liner · packet ship
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