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HMS Lively (1797) was a 16-gun storeship, purchased on the stocks and launched in 1797. She stayed in Dublin Harbour for most of the 1798 Irish Rebellion being used as a prison ship for political prisoners. Commanded by Captain Dobson, the Lively arrived in Cork Harbour on 29 January 1798 with 118 male and 19 female convicts for the ship Minerva to transport to New South Wales. The transfer was delayed due to poor health of the Irish political prisoners onboard the Lively. Surgeon John Washington Price, inspecting the Lively, recorded in his journal that the prisoners were, ‘in the most wretched, cruel and pitiable condition I’d ever seen human beings in’. He further recorded, 'It appears to me that Mr. Dobson endeavors to aggravate the punishment of these wretches by every means in his power.' A number of the 'Lively's' prisoners died before the remainder were eventually transferred to the Minerva which sailed from Cork, Ireland on 24 August 1799. The Lively was deleted from the navy lists in 1802.