prison ship
Seaborne detention vessel
A prison ship is a vessel used to confine prisoners, either as a floating jail or for transporting convicts to distant penal colonies.
During the American Revolution, British prison ships in New York Harbor held captured soldiers in notoriously brutal conditions.
The term sometimes appears figuratively for any cramped, inescapable situation: This cruise ship feels like a prison ship.
- hulkMassive body or shell
- convictJailed offender after trial
- convict laborWork by incarcerated people
- transportMoving things between places
- shacklesMetal bonds for prisoners
deportation · galley · hold · below decks · chains · ball and chain · leg irons · voyage · Botany Bay · penal colony · anchor · bilge · fever · dungeon · floating · sea voyage · exile · hard labor
- shipsvessel, freighter, tanker, oil tanker, frigate
prison shipluxury liner
Upscale passenger vessel
pleasure craft · cruise liner · party boat · yacht · passenger ship
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