During the Revolutionary War there were a total of 4,435 combat deaths from 1775 to 1783

  • 4,044 Army
  • 342 Navy
  • 49 Marines

Having said that, I’ve never found any records of those specific casualties but there were thousands upon thousands of Prisoners of War that were housed on ships, whose fates become unknown.

The Old Jersey Prison Ship records, housed by the British War Department, and not particularly in order, seem to be the only records of any of the vessels, that have been preserved in any sort of fashion and even at that they were disastrously misspelled, missing vital information such as wh0, beyond a name these men were or where they come from, etc.

The U.S. Naval Institute has a brief written By Charles H. Jenrich in February 1963, you can almost smell the smells and see the sights.

  • Whitby the first prison ship until May 1777
  • Good Hope Prison Ship
  • Scorpion Prison Ship
  • Prince of Wales Prison Ship
  • Falmouth Prison Ship
  • Hunter Prison Ship
  • Stromboli Prison Ship
  • John Prison Shop
  • The Old Jersey Prison Ship