- The
Armada society are
pressganged from
various ships to live on the
floating colony. Miéville
favours the word "
pressganged" and has used it in numerous...
- than 42,000
sailors had deserted.
Roughly half of all RN
crews were
pressganged and
these not only
received lower wages than
volunteers but were shackled...
- well as a
split with Bay Area band
Steel Trap in 2006 for
Spiderghost Pressgang.
Later that year, they
signed on to
Rumble Records to
record their debut...
-
Second Thoughts, the role was pla**** by
Press Gang alum
Julia Sawalha. "[
pressgang] Interview:
Kelda Holmes". Yoyo.org. 1
January 1997.
Archived from the...
- its most
notorious criminals.
After Harley herself is
imprisoned and
pressganged into the
Suicide Squad,
Joker aims to free her from her predicament,...
- for herring, the "silver darlings" of the title. Catrine's
husband is
pressganged into the
Royal Navy and dies at sea.
Catrine is left
widowed with a young...
- ransom. In the 19th century,
kidnapping in the form of
shanghaiing (or "
pressganging") men
supplied merchant ships with sailors, whom the law
considered unfree...
- the
methods used to gain
workers were very harsh. The Army was used to
pressgang local people and most were
taken by
force to the Reich. In
addition to...
-
influential militia officer and
merchant in Nova Scotia. He parti****ted in a
pressgang riot
during the War of 1812
against the
Royal Navy. He was an opponent...
- work-piece by the
application of
pressure "the Press",
colloquial name for
pressganging, a 17th- to 19th-century
Royal Navy
method of
forced conscription Press...
