Pressed into Service

Compelled or requisitioned for duty, especially when people or resources are urgently required.

In maritime history, pressing most often refers to the compulsory recruitment of men for naval service under legal or asserted state authority. Vessels and material may also be requisitioned in wartime or emergency, but that is a related rather than identical process.

Modern figurative use often means that a person or object has been made to serve an unplanned purpose, without implying historic naval impressment.