"The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore" by J. R. Hutchinson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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J. R. Hutchinson. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
Table of Contents
THE PRESS-GANG
CHAPTER I. — HOW THE PRESS-GANG CAME IN
CHAPTER II. — WHY THE GANG WAS NECESSARY
CHAPTER III. — WHAT THE PRESS-GANG WAS
CHAPTER IV. — WHOM THE GANG MIGHT TAKE
CHAPTER V. — WHAT THE GANG DID AFLOAT
CHAPTER VI. — EVADING THE GANG
CHAPTER VII. — WHAT THE GANG DID ASHORE
CHAPTER VIII. — AT GRIPS WITH THE GANG
CHAPTER IX. — THE GANG AT PLAY
CHAPTER X. — WOMEN AND THE PRESS-GANG
CHAPTER XI. — IN THE CLUTCH OF THE GANG
CHAPTER XII. — HOW THE GANG WENT OUT
APPENDIX
ADMIRAL YOUNG'S TORPEDO
INDEX
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J. R. Hutchinson
Published by Good Press, 2019
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In that island a great and vigorous people had sprung into being—a people great in their ambitions, commerce and dominion; vigorous in holding what they had won against the assaults, meditated or actual, of those who envied their greatness and coveted their possessions. Of this island people, as of their world-wide interests, the "chiefest defence" was a "good fleet at sea." [Footnote: This famous phrase is used, perhaps for the first time, by Josiah Burchett, sometime Secretary to the Admiralty, in his Observations on the Navy, 1700.]
The Peace of Utrecht, marking though it did the close of the protracted war of the Spanish Succession, brought to the Island Kingdom not peace, but a sword; for although its Navy was now as unrivalled as its commerce and empire, the supreme struggle for existence, under the guise of the mastery of the sea, was only just begun. Decade after decade, as that struggle waxed and waned but went remorselessly on, the Navy grew in ships, the ships in tonnage and weight of metal, and with their growth the demand for men, imperative as the very existence of the nation, mounted ever higher and higher. In 1756 fifty thousand sufficed for the nation's needs. By 1780 the number had reached ninety-two thousand; and with 1802 it touched high-water mark in the unprecedented total of one hundred and twenty-nine thousand men in actual sea pay. [Footnote: Admiralty Records 7. 567-Navy Progress, 1756–1805. These figures are below rather than above the mark, since the official returns on which they are based are admittedly deficient.]
