prisonship

Virginia also owned a prisonship called the Gloucester.

American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

Her death was occasioned by a fever, brought on by a visit to Charleston, to carry necessaries to some friends and relations on board the prisonship, whose deplorable sufferings, she, with four or five other ladies, was permitted to relieve.

Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers 1846

(c) Samuel, born 1763, entered the army at the age of sixteen, captured at Charleston, with General Lincoln; suffered terribly on prisonship; after exchange served with Lafayette and afterward with General Greene.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

a prisonship, the perilous escape, and the lone wanderings through the wilderness, till I again reached the soil of freedom, -- in all these, the impress remained unweakened, constantly presenting itself to my thoughts by day, and shaping my dreams by night.

The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont D. P. Thompson 1831