At Sea Under Impressment - Accounts of Involuntary Service Aboard Navy and Pirate Vessels, 1700-1820 - Paperback - 2010

As Britain became a dominant sailing empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, her ships were manned in part by impressment. This book provides an overview of the practice, in which naval officers oversaw a press gang that abducted British and American citizens, and held them captive until they were sent to sea as unwilling sailors.
Year of publication: 2010
Pagination: 212 pages, photos, notes, index
Format: Paperback