1910 Convict Ship 'Success' then the oldest ship afloat - Re-enactment of a man being flogged with a "cat o'nine tails" The Success was an Australian ship, built in 1840 at Natmoo, Burma, for Cockerell & Co. of Calcutta. Originally a merchant trader she was used as a prison hulk but was never never actually used for the transportation of convicts (though she was advertised as such when later used as a floating museum and billed as the oldest ship afloat) She was then displaying relics of the convict era and reconstructions of punishments taking place.) She was destroyed in 1946 by fire.

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