Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Naval Annual
Author: Brassey's Naval Annual
Author: Royal United Services Institute for Defence StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Naval Annual
Author: Brassey's Naval Annual
Author: Brassey's Naval Annual; Volume 1912
Author: John LeylandPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017717259
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Brassey's Naval Annual
Author: Royal United Services Institute for Defence StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Brassey's Naval Annual
Author: American Practical Navigator
Author: Nathaniel BowditchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
The Naval Annual
Author: AnonymousPublisher:
ISBN: 9781021776686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Myth of the Press Gang
Author: Jeremiah Ross DancyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1783270039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Overturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century. SHORTLISTED for the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal. The press gang is generally regarded as the means by which the British navy solved the problem of recruiting enough seamen in the late eighteenth century. This book, however, based on extensive original research conducted primarily in a large number of ships' muster books, demonstrates that this view is false. It argues that, in fact, the overwhelming majority of seamen in the navy were there of their own free will. Taking a long view across the late eighteenth century but concentrating on the period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793-1815, the book provides great detail on the sort of men that were recruited and the means by which they were recruited, and includes a number of individuals' stories. It shows how manpower was a major concern for the Admiralty; how the Admiralty put in place a range of recruitment methods including the quota system; how it worried about depleting merchant shipping of sufficient sailors; and how, although most seamen were volunteers, the press gang was resorted to, especially during the initial mobilisation at the beginning of wars and to find certain kinds of particularly skilled seamen. The book also makes comparisons with recruitment methods employed by the navies of other countries and by the British army. J. Ross Dancy is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University.