tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178779736451277146.post45131731718120918..comments2024-02-25T17:01:10.739+13:00Comments on World of the Written Word: GRIM DETAILS OF LIFE ABOARD PRISON HULKS RELEASEDWorld of the Written Wordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10695926585496640941noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178779736451277146.post-69474007223991125912012-01-20T07:52:04.449+13:002012-01-20T07:52:04.449+13:00That's really interesting, Margaret. I'll...That's really interesting, Margaret. I'll follow this book up. The only prison hulk story I know is that of Mary Broad, who was arrested as a highwaywoman, and went on from the hulk to be one of the female prisoners in the First Fleet to Botany Bay. She married William Bryant en route, and together they stole the colony cutter and made an amazing small boat voyage to the East Indies, rather in the manner of Bligh. So, since her story is so dramatic, I have a fairly dramatic view of prison hulks.World of the Written Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10695926585496640941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178779736451277146.post-53554251712804104282012-01-19T20:16:08.903+13:002012-01-19T20:16:08.903+13:00Accounts of life on prison hulks is varied accordi...Accounts of life on prison hulks is varied according to the sources you read or listen to. <br />THE FLOATING PRISON is a 'remarkable account of 9 years' captivity on the British Prison Hulks during the Napoleonic Wars'.<br />Louis Garneray was a French prisoner and an artist who was able to paint and to sell his paintings on shore. <br />Some prisoners were schooled in reading and writing, others learned the basics of a trade, others were rowed ashore each day to work on the wharves in the chain gangs. <br />With a doctor assigned to each hulk, the health of the prisoners, be they English or foreign was often better than in the dibolical British gaols.M. C. Muirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443902997432695441noreply@blogger.com