The notorious events surrounding the "Prison Battleship" are symbolic of the ongoing defiance shown by prisoners throughout history. A well-known example of resistance involved an extensive fire on board. Several fires broke out and damaged parts of the ship; however, they were eventually extinguished.
Even if law were ignored, the design fails operationally: prison battleship
Even the Japanese Imperial Navy experimented with the concept. After the Battle of Tsushima (1905), the ageing pre-dreadnought Shikishima was temporarily converted into a detention hulk for Russian prisoners of war before they were sent to camps in Kyushu. It was a short-lived experiment, but it proved that the prison battleship was a global phenomenon. The notorious events surrounding the "Prison Battleship" are