Explore: Jersey (prison Ship)

A prison ship, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war

ship in 1771. In 1780 she was converted again, this time to a prison ship, and was used by the British during the American Revolutionary War. Jersey was

40°41′30″N 73°58′32″W / 40.6918°N 73.9756°W / 40.6918; -73.9756 The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument is a war memorial at Fort Greene Park, in the New York

'Old Jersey' prison ship during the War of the Revolution." Holland Club. 1858. Stiles, Henry Reed (1865). Letters from the Prisons and Prison-ships of

in 1736 and used as a prison ship in the American Revolutionary War HMS Jersey (1776), a sloop commissioned in 1776 HMS Jersey (1860), a cutter commissioned

old Jersey prison ship at New York, 1781. In a series of letters to a friend." W. Peirce. 1833. Lang, Patrick J.. "The horrors of the English prison ships

Prison hulks were decommissioned ships that authorities used as floating prisons in the 18th and 19th centuries. They were extensively used in England

Revolutionary War who helped over 200 prisoners of war escape British prison ships. She worked with George Higday of the Culper Spy Ring, and after he was

on a privateer in New London, but was captured and confined in the Jersey prison-ship in New York. A few months later he escaped, and on the restoration

ship's surgeon in the latter part of the Revolutionary War, Haven was captured by the British and was a prisoner of war aboard the Jersey prison ship