I have found a ship's search engine; if you know the name of the ship, you can place it into this search engine and a/many resources come up concerning the ship. It's awesome the information that has been compiled. If you know the name of the ship, take a look at the information about it that is available!! Rhonda Houston http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/north5.html Britain's Prison Ships, 1776-1783 by Gary North Jersey and the Whitby in Wallabout Bay on the site of the Navy Yard during the Revolutionary War. the Old Jersey, with her satellites, the three hospital ships – the Scorpion, Stromboli, and Hunter http://www.shipindex.org/ Jersey, British prison ship (1781), XXIV, 248; XXV, 110 American Neptune. Salem, Mass.: Peabody Essex Museum, 1941-. More info... Whitby, the Prison Ship: Ship Name Page Number Source Information Ceres (1799), compared with Whitby brig 147 MacGregor, David R. Merchant Sailing Ships, 1775-1815: Sovereignty of Sail. London: Conway Maritime, 1985. More info... John (1803), compared to Whitby brig 147 MacGregor, David R. Merchant Sailing Ships, 1775-1815: Sovereignty of Sail. London: Conway Maritime, 1985. More info... Three British hospital-ships: the Scorpion, the prison/hospital ship: Chapelle, Howard I. The History of American Sailing Ships. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1935. Chapelle, Howard I. The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1949. Each entry in this index contains a brief history of the listed ship, plus various dimensions and statistics. When using the source, be sure to check the index itself for useful information Stromboli, prison/hospital ship: Ship Name Page Number Source Information Stromboli 21 Hollett, David. Passage to the New World: Packet Ships and Irish Famine Emigrants, 1845-1851. Abergavenny, Great Britain: P.M. Heaton Publishing, 1995. the Hunter, the prison/hospital: Hunter 198, 200, 202, 202, 208, 212, 478, 514, 568, 592, 604, 618, 640, 652 Starbuck, Alexander. History of the American Whale Fishery, From its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876. 2 vol. New York: Argosy-Antiquarian, 1964. More info... Hunter 26, 81 Rowe, William Hutchinson. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Shipbuilding & Seafaring. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1948. Hunter 229 Kemp, Lieut.-Cmdr. P. K., O.B.E. History of the Royal Navy. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. Hunter 261 Bruce, Anthony, and William Cogar. An Encyclopedia of Naval History. New York: Checkmark Books, 1998. More info... Hunter 52 Greenhill, Basil. The Merchant Schooners: Volume Two. London: National Maritime Museum, 1978. (Originally: Percival Marshall & Co., 1951.) More info... Hunter Bhm 1825, 224, 232; Gar 1851 Baker, William Avery. A Maritime History of Bath, Maine, and the Kennebec River Region. Two volumes. Bath, Maine: Marine Research Society, 1973. More info... Hunter (British warship) 256c Ritchie, David. Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Disasters at Sea. New York: Checkmark Books, 1996. More info... the Bleisarius: American privaterr ship that was transferred to the prison ships in 1812: Belisarius 111 Rowe, William Hutchinson. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Shipbuilding & Seafaring. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1948. Belisarius 134, 139, 176 Chapelle, Howard I. The Search for Speed Under Sail, 1700-1855. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1967. More info... Belisarius (Fast ship) 33, 392 Cutler, Carl C. Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1930. More info... Belisarius, American frigate (ca. 1780) 66-67, 143 Millar, John F. American Ships of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978. Belisarius, American frigate (ca. 1780), ill. 67 Millar, John F. American Ships of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978. Belisarius, brig (1823), VIII, 173 American Neptune. Salem, Mass.: Peabody Essex Museum, 1941-. More info... Belisarius, dimensions 135 Chapelle, Howard I. The Search for Speed Under Sail, 1700-1855. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1967. More info... Belisarius, ship XXV, 181; (1794), II, 281; XIII, 235; Pictorial Supplement, XXXII, plate V; (1795), XVIII, 137, 138 American Neptune. Salem, Mass.: Peabody Essex Museum, 1941-. More info... Belisarius, ship privateer, dimensions 134, 139, 140, 142 Chapelle, Howard I. The History of American Sailing Ships. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1935. Bellesarius (Fast ship-probably same as Belisarius) 34 Cutler, Carl C. Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1930. More info... Fame, ship (or Belisarius?) (1802) II, 279; Pictorial Supplement, XXXII, plate VII; (1803), XXV, 184 American Neptune. Salem, Mass.: Peabody Essex Museum, 1941-. More info...