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PRESS GANG

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 299 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PRESS GANG , the popular name for the companies of
officers
  and men who were commissioned to execute the warrants for the impressment of
seamen
  in
Great
  Britain (see IMPRESSMENT). These bodies consisted of a
captain
 , one or more lieutenants, and a
band
  of trustworthy men. They were sent to seaports, or occasionally to inland towns where sailors were likely to be met when going from one
coast
  to another. A " rendezvous " was opened, volunteers were enlisted, deserters arrested, and such " able bodied persons " as were liable to be pressed for service in the
fleet
  were seized, and sent to the guard
ships
  (q.v.).


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