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Where did convicts on the first fleet sleep?

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The convicts of the First Fleet slept below decks, in the bottom part of the ship, on wooden bunks.

Down each side of the convict ships were 2 tiers of wood bunks which were 1.8

meters square -the size of 2 single beds pushed together. 4 convicts would all have to share a bunk.

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