While searching for French warship pictures, I found a few pictures with ship-of-the-line hulks and a wiki report about hulks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_%28ship%29

Interesting that the decomissioned warships were used for many funktions.

I like to show here a few pictures.

A hulk in the French harbour of Toulon used as a barracks. This is a photo!



A prison hulk used by the British.



A hulk in the French harbour of Toulon. Sometimes they used them as powder storage.



Another prison hulk.





While searching the net, I found pictures of an exhibition about live on a prison hulk.

Did anyone of you know something about it, or visited such an exhibition?