Between 1788 and 1840 over 110,000 men and women were transported to Australia. From among this body of people, almost 1,500 were from Lincolnshire. In the next twenty or so years until transportation stopped, another 50,000 were sent. Very few of these were political prisoners, and most were from the labouring classes. A prisoner was in for a very hard time, going first from Lincoln Castle to the hulks, the prison ships in the estuary. A third of the prison population in a hulk died in that place. In the year 1865 alone, 561 convicts arrived in Australia.