Protections, for masters, mates, boatswains, and carpenters, worthless, if the holder were ashore, bound to be always carried, slightest error in description invalidated, were often disregarded, special, for men in lieu, for crews of convoys and privateers expired on arrival in home waters, lent, bought, and exchanged, American, Provisions in the Navy, Quarantine, Queensferry, the press-gang at, Quota men, "R" for "run" in ships' books to denote deserter, Raleigh, Sir Walter, Ramsgate, the press-gang at, Reading, the press-gang at, Registration of seamen, Regulating, i.e. examination of pressed-men for fitness, ailments and defects fabricated or assumed, Regulating captains, character of a, Repulse, H.M.S., Rendezvous, attacked, regulations of, Rescue of pressed men from the gang, Reunion, H.M.S., Rhode Island, Rice, Richard II, Richards, John, midshipman, Richardson, Lieut, Right of search, Roberts, Capt. John, Rochester, the press-gang at, Rodney, Admiral Lord, Roebuck, H.M.S., Romsey, the press-gang at, Routh, Capt, _Royal Sovereign_, H.M.S., _Ruby_ gunship, Rudsdale, Lieut., Rum, _Rupert_, H.M.S., Russia, impressment in, Russian Navy, Ryde, the Lord of the Manor, claimed the privilege of private protections for his ferrymen to Portsmouth and Gosport, the press-gang at, _Rye_, H.M.S., Rye, the press-gang at, Sailor, the word disfavoured by Navy Board, a creature of contradictions, St. Ives, safe from the press-gang, St. Lawrence River, deserters in, St. Vincent, Earl of. See Jervis, J, Salisbury, the press-gang at, Sanders, Joseph, _Sandwich_, H.M.S., flag-ship at the Nore, Sax, Lieut, _Scipio_, H.M.S., Scott, John, pressed when his protection was lying in his coat beside him, Scottish fishermen, _Seahorse_, H.M.S., "Serving out slops," Severn trow-men, exempted from impress by 10% levy, Court of Exchequer rules the reverse, Seymour, Lieut., Sham gangs, _Shandois_ sloop, _Shannon_, H.M.S., Shannon, men working turf boats on, not exempt, _Shark_, sloop, "She" applied to a ship, a recent use, Sheerness, crimpage at, Shields, press-gang at, Ships, impressment of, Shipwrights in Scotch yards could be pressed as carpenters on warships, Shirley, Governor, Shoreham, the press-gang at, _Shrewsbury_, H.M.S., Shrewsbury, sham gangs at, Sloper, Major-General, Smeaton, John, Smugglers, crew of, pressed, unsuspecting passenger declared owner and pressed, _Solebay_, H.M.S., Southampton, the press-gang at, Southey, Robt, _English Eclogues_, _Southsea Castle_, H.M.S., Spithead, crimpage at, an entrepôt for pressed men, _Spy_ sloop of war, _Squirrel_, H.M.S., _Stag_, H.M.S., _Stag_ privateer, Stangate Creek, the fray at, Stephens, George, impressed at thirteen, Stephenson, George, Stepney Fields, press-gang at, Stillwell, John, Stourbridge, the press-gang at, Strike-me-blind. See Rice, Sturdy, Ralph, shot by the pressgang on the _Britannia_,