Place name help

I read it as Seaman H something Ship Waterloo, but wasn't sure enough about the words between Seaman and Ship, having read Sue's post #29 I think her version could be right, it's logical.
 
Have to say on a second look that first letter does look more like an H than a poorly written A, if the guy is a convict the Waterloo is likely to be a hulk.
 
I'm wondering if I have found his death.

Burial on 17 April 1857, Kent, Queenborough, Holy Trinity.

Thomas Lynch aged 38. Birth year 1819

Residence HMS Waterloo.
 
The Thomas on the convict records was born in 1812. If he was sentenced to life then he wouldn’t be in England in 1857.
HMS Waterloo was decommissioned in 1866 so until then she was a seagoing Royal Navy ship.
There was a merchant ship Waterloo built 1815 but she was wrecked in 1842.
 
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Jellylegs said:
I'm wondering if I have found his death.

Burial on 17 April 1857, Kent, Queenborough, Holy Trinity.

Thomas Lynch aged 38. Birth year 1819

Residence HMS Waterloo.
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Maybe this helps that it could be his death, I'm pretty sure I've found daughter Elizabeth with a brother and her married again mother Honora Murphy and family in the 1861 census RG09, Piece 533, Folio 96, Page 30.

A Honora Lynch married Dennis Murphy Dec 1/4 1858 Sheppey RD.

Maybe Thomas death certificate will throw more light on it.

LYNCH, THOMAS 38
GRO Reference: 1857 J Quarter in SHEPPEY Volume 02A Page 335
 
Was the Waterloo moored off Sheerness?
That's Thomas' address - next column. So he worked on it, not a prisoner.

I see:
Seaman
???
H M Ship
Waterloo

Could that second line be RN (Royal Navy) or MN (Merchant Navy)?

Jane
 
From Wiki:-

Waterloo was a merchant ship built at Bristol, England in 1815. On her first voyage she suffered a short-lived mutiny. She then made one voyage under charter to the British East India Company (EIC). She made four voyages transporting convicts from England to Australia, and two voyages from Ireland to Australia. On her seventh convict voyage Waterloo wrecked on 28 August 1842 in Table Bay with great loss of life.

So I'd say MN (Merchant Navy) too
 
From pdavis.nl Browse Victorian RN Vessels
Extracts from the Times newspaper, Wed 31 December 1856: The following ships and vessels are now in port in Sheerness, in harbour, fitting basin and in docks viz:- ***** Waterloo 120 guns, Captain Lord Frederick Kerr, flagship: The Formidable 84 guns Captain Superintendent John Jervis Tucker...and so on.
Her whole history can be found on that site.
From 9 December 1853 until 28 Feb 1859...Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Frederick Herbert Kerr, flagship of Vice Admiral Josceline Percy then Admiral William Gordon, Sheeness.
From June 1857 she was Commanded by Captain Henry Harvey until February 1859
 
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