Prison Ship Success, Torture Instruments
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Prison Ship Success, Torture Instruments
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Science Source
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Success was an Australian prison ship, built in 1840. She was sold to London owners and made three voyages with emigrants to Australia. Due to an increase in crime, prisons were overflowing and the Government of Victoria purchased large sailing ships to be employed as prison hulks. These included Success, Deborah, Sacramento and President. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, she was converted into a floating museum displaying relics of the convict era. After extensive world tours she was destroyed in 1946 by fire while berthed in Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio. Bain News Service, circa 1910-15.
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