Full Speed Ahead: Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Full Speed Ahead: Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent, credited to Henry Beston, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Full Speed Ahead: Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent by Henry Beston. Read in English by David Wales “These tales are memories of several months spent as a special correspondent attached to the forces of the American Navy on foreign service…. [I have] been content to chronicle the interesting incidents of the daily life as well as the achievements and heroisms of the friends who keep the highways of the sea…. I would not end without a word of thanks to the enlisted men for their unfailing good will and ever courteous behaviour.” Henry Beston (1888-1968) was an American author. In 1918, Beston became a press representative for the U.S. Navy. Highlights from this period include being the only American correspondent to travel with the British Grand Fleet and to be aboard an American destroyer during combat engagement and sinking during World War I. This 1919 book describes these experiences. Lists of names have been omitted from the Preface. - Summary by Book Preface, Wikipedia, David Wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: Full Speed Ahead: Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent
• Author credits: Henry Beston
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 4:48:49

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• Great War
• naval ships
• memoire
• american navy
• sea warfare
• life aboard a naval ship

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:18
2. 01 - An Heroic Journey; Into The Dark; Friend Or Foe? — 29:19
3. 02 - Running Submerged; The Return Of The Captains; Our Sailors — 29:29
4. 03 - The Base; The Destroyer And Her Problem; Torpedoed; The End Of A Submarine — 33:57
5. 04 - 'Fishing'; Amusements; Storm; On Night Patrol; Camouflage — 45:22
6. 05 - Tragedy; 'Consolidation Not Cooperation'; Machine Against Machine; The Legend Of Kelley; Sons Of The Trident; The Fleet; The American Squadron — 39:01
7. 06 - To Sea With The Fleet; 'Sky Pilots'; In The Wireless Room; Marines — 31:35
8. 07 - Ships Of The Air; The Sailor In London; The Armed Guard; Going Aboard — 32:44
9. 08 - Grain; Collision — 19:26
10. 09 - The Raid By The River; On Having Been Both A Soldier And A Sailor — 25:38

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