At Millbank and the hulks I had the best possible character, as also on my arrival at Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, after a passage of four months.
Soon after this, contracts were entered into for the erection of a large prison at Chatham, which was completed in 1858, and to which all those at the Woolwich hulks were in course of time transferred.
Another outlet must be found, and for a time convicts sentenced or liable to transportation were kept at hard labour in the hulks in harbours and arsenals at home.
As soon as the hulks at home were full, and convicts began to accumulate, vessels were chartered for New South Wales.
I beg to state that during the period of three years and four months I was at the hulks I worked in all the gangs in the dockyard.
The hulkshad been pressed into the service, and were employed at the various dockyards to house the convicts, but only as a temporary measure, until proper buildings on the new plan could be erected.
When the stone laden hulks were sunk this current quickly swept away the sand and mud from beneath them, so that presently the harbor entrance was found to have been actually deepened by the effort to close it.
So far from obstructing the entrance to the harbor, the sinking of the hulks there had the effect of extensive dredging.
They were great, pointed, covered hulks carrying forty or fifty tons of freight and manned by almost as many men.
In the course of their voyage, a dozen Spanish hulks laden with powder were taken, half of which were left to Monson to haul over, while his admiral put to sea with the rest.
But it is not merely rotten hulks which may become coffin-ships: many superior vessels are woefully deficient in accommodation for the sailor's comfort.
He was, however, again arrested for picking a pocket in Drury Lane Theatre, and sentenced to three years' hard labour on board the hulks in the Thames.
He was taken up when still in his teens for stealing a pocket-book, and was sentenced to transportation, but did not get beyond the hulks at Chatham.
He had thought to change his lot, to exchange the hulks for Newgate, even at the risk of winding up at Tyburn.
During those years he became utterly demoralized, for the hulks were like galleys, minus crime and infamy.
Max, taken prisoner by the English, was sent to the Spanish hulks at the island of Cabrera, the most horrible of all stations for prisoners of war.
His experience on the hulks at Cabrera had taught him a dissimulation as deep and thorough as his corruption.
These two men, by the way, were the pair who escaped from the hulks into the marshes.
How he had hated the other so fiercely that after they both had escaped from the prison-hulks he had dragged Compeyson back to imprisonment even at the loss of his own liberty.
The blacksmith told him that in the river across the marshes were anchored some big hulks of ships, like wicked Noah's arks, where convicts were kept prisoners, and that the gun was a signal that some of these convicts had escaped.
There are still, however, some eleven or twelve old hulks in use as coastguard stations; principally in the estuaries of the Thames and Medway.
A cadet of the Utrecht, Dutch man-of-war, who broke his parole at Tenterden, when recaptured was sent to the hulks at Chatham.
Many articles were seized, and Black Jimmy and others were sent to the hulks at Chatham—such scum were among the men to whom Buonaparte appealed on the eve of Waterloo to tell their comrades how they had suffered in the British hulks.
Not only was the ration allowance reduced until all expenses incurred in the capture were paid off, but committal to one of the prisons or to the hulks was also inflicted.
These hulks were later used as places of confinement for malefactors among the prisoners, and also to relieve the prisons from overcrowding whenever an extraordinary accumulation took place in the country.
The "Mayo" anchored amongst our hulks and surrendered; the "Indomitable" lost on the shore and I am told that every soul perished.
Surely, it was the arch-fiend himself who put it into the hearts of the English to turn these disease-infected hulks into prisons; no mere mortal mind could have in itself conceived such a thought.
How dismal and condemned the three hulks looked, despite the transfiguring touch of the morning!
Letters to convicts in the hulks are opened by the officers before being delivered to the prisoners.
The rooms of his house became a sort of harbour of refuge in which several strange battered hulks found their last moorings.
Hence the miseries of the hulksand the dreadful prison barracks in England.
Malignant fevers, brought from the hulks or prisons, propagated in the stagnant atmosphere, and, when combined with low and crude diet, more than decimated the list.
The House of Commons negatived the motion of Molesworth (September, 1840), and the crowded condition of the hulksexcited serious complaints.
On his way to the hulkshe once more got off his irons, but was secured (1820).
As far as ever I could see the water was covered thickly with tangled and matted weed, broken only here and there by hummocks of wreckage and by a few hulks drifting in slowly to take their places in the ranks of the dead.
No one seemed surprised to see him, but they looked at him stolidly and rowed him back to the hulks as a matter of course.
They're firing because one of the thieves on the hulks is got away.
He had escaped again from the hulks and, coming into a considerable property, had arranged with the lawyer to use it in making a gentleman out of the little boy he had found crying on the tombstone.
People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking questions.
Now, theHulks has got its gentleman again, through me.
My back was turned towards the distant Hulks as I walked on, and, though I could see the old lights away on the spits of sand, I saw them over my shoulder.
They took up a new-fangled torpedo to blow up some of the hulks and make a wider opening, but the thing wouldn't work.
I was thinking," said Tom, "that if they had whitewashed the decks of the hulks next to the opening it would go far to prevent such an accident.
It won't be a nice job, boys, but must be done, else those hulks will be driven down upon the steamer.
If the wreckers are willing to leave their hulks on such a shore as this, without so much as a single man aboard, it would serve them right to lose the whole boiling.
At that moment Benny gave little heed to the fate of the stranded steamer; if the three men could be safely taken from the lighter he believed there would be cause for rejoicing, even though all hulks alongshore were dashed to pieces.
The ships of England drifted Helplessly, at the mercy of those great hulks Oared by their thousand slaves.
Right on they came, And suddenly the wrench of thundering cannon Shook the vast hulks that towered above them.
Now round him once again, Thrust out your oars, ye mighty hulks of doom; Forward, with hiss of whip and clank of chain!
She, Last night, in dark collision with the hulks Of Spain, had lost her foremast.
They saw the harbour lights across the waves Glittering, and the shadowy hulks of ships Gathered together like a flock of sheep Within the port.
Ever to leeward the great hulks careen; Their thousand cannon can but wound the sky, While England's little Rainbow foams and flashes by.
The clumsy motor-lighters were a danger to themselves and a terror to others, for they often refused to answer their helms when they left the lee of the sunken hulks and their bows first met the seas.
If she were to take it into her head to send us both to the Criminal Court first and the hulks afterwards--I should apply for a passport and set sail for America, though I am as innocent as a new-born babe.
Here they were overtaken by a tempest, and were scattered hither and thither, almost at the mercy of the winds and waves; for those unwieldy hulks were ill adapted to a tempest in the Bay of Biscay.
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