Where were the english forced to house a large number of prisoners in the late eighteenth century?

#1) Where were the english forced to house a large number of prisoners in the late eighteenth century?
Sailing Vessels. During the eighteenth century, British justice used a wide variety of measures to punish crime, including fines, the pillory and whipping. Transportation to America was often offered, until 1776, as an alternative to the death penalty, which could be imposed for many offenses including pilfering. When they ran out of prisons in 1776 they used old sailing vessels which came to be called hulks as places of temporary confinement.