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PRESS GANG

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRESS GANG , the popular name for the companies of See also:officers and men who were commissioned to execute the warrants for the See also:impressment of See also:seamen in See also:Great See also:Britain (see IMPRESSMENT). These bodies consisted of a See also:captain, one or more lieutenants, and a See also: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 See also:coast to another. A " See also:rendezvous " was opened, See also:volunteers were enlisted, deserters arrested, and such " able bodied persons " as were liable to be pressed for service in the See also:fleet were seized, and sent to the guard See also:ships (q.v.).

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