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They have jail ships? What for?

Admiral Valdemar wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2742983.stm

What's the bet there's a group of fish out there feasting on a man who lost the bet he could swim to freedom?

Rob Wilson wrote:

Admiral Valdemar wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2742983.stm

What's the bet there's a group of fish out there feasting on a man who lost the bet he could swim to freedom?

Well I hear we do get Blue Sharks off the south coast.

jaeger115 wrote:They have jail ships? What for?

I'd imagine that it's for security but it still seems strange to me too.

jaeger115 wrote:They have jail ships? What for?

At a wild guess, keeping prisoners on.

Stormbringer wrote:

jaeger115 wrote:They have jail ships? What for?

I'd imagine that it's for security but it still seems strange to me too.

People tend to complain when a prison is built near them, so this was a proposal to increase natural security, lower building and running costs and have somewhere that didn't decrease houseprices and threaten MP's positions with their constituents.

Rob Wilson wrote:

Stormbringer wrote:

jaeger115 wrote:They have jail ships? What for?

I'd imagine that it's for security but it still seems strange to me too.

People tend to complain when a prison is built near them, so this was a proposal to increase natural security, lower building and running costs and have somewhere that didn't decrease houseprices and threaten MP's positions with their constituents.

Plus torpedoing the ship helps perform mass executions.

Prison ships still exist???!!!

Necro99 wrote:Prison ships still exist???!!!

They're English, they love their traditions.

Necro99 wrote:Prison ships still exist???!!!

Damn right, comrade!

No more gulags for us.

Stormbringer wrote:

Necro99 wrote:Prison ships still exist???!!!

They're English, they love their traditions.

Ever seen a guy try to dig his way out of a prison ship? He soon learns not to do that again.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:

Necro99 wrote:Prison ships still exist???!!!

Damn right, comrade!

No more gulags for us.

Yeah, but you can't work the prisoners to death digging trenches in the frozen Siberian ground on a prison ship now can you?

The guy was serving a two year sentence and tried to escape?

I wonder if anybody has complained about unfair treatment for getting seasick?

Stormbringer wrote:

Admiral Valdemar wrote:

Necro99 wrote:Prison ships still exist???!!!

Damn right, comrade!

No more gulags for us.

Yeah, but you can't work the prisoners to death digging trenches in the frozen Siberian ground on a prison ship now can you?

They can be dropped off on an iceberg.

What is the name of that ship is it the love boat

Montcalm wrote:What is the name of that ship is it the love boat

HMP Weare. But I bet it's still funky lovin'!

Strange vessel. I'd never heard the UK still had prison ships, I'd think with all the offshore islands they'd just use one of them if they wanted a really secluded prison, some already are on islands.

It looks like the prison is on a barge, which is being carried by a heavy lift ship.

Aha haha ha. Strange indeed.

I can picture Poseidan looking up from Atlantis and scowling as the ship floats overhead. "There goes the neighborhood."

*sigh* why do the criminals always live near me? im in devon and they are alway near me on that damned boat + dartmoor prison..... the moors are always fun for the escaped idiot or idiots cause of all the nasty weather we get here ... and the legendry hairy hands of dartmoor

antitrek wrote:*sigh* why do the criminals always live near me? im in devon and they are alway near me on that damned boat + dartmoor prison..... the moors are always fun for the escaped idiot or idiots cause of all the nasty weather we get here ... and the legendry hairy hands of dartmoor

Beast of Bodmin?

Hmm...how many prison ships do they have?

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:Hmm...how many prison ships do they have?

Ask a RN officer and they'll say pretty much every military ship.