Bibby Stockholm
The Bibby Stockholm.
  • The UK is set to start housing hundreds of asylum seekers in a barge moored on Dorset coast.
  • The barge looks eerily like a floating prison, with bleak, narrow corridors and cramped rooms.
  • Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said it offered "basic and appropriate standards."

This is the Bibby Stockholm, a bleak floating accommodation block that the British government is renting to house hundreds of asylum seekers.

The 222-cabin barge is moored on the southern coast of England and will soon hold an estimated 500 men while their applications to remain in the UK are processed.

The Bibby Stockholm
A courtyard area on the barge.