Stories of the Ships: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Stories of the Ships, credited to Lewis R. Freeman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. Freeman. Read in English by David Wales While most associate the "Great War" with trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, and poison gas, ships played roles in the military at the beginning of the 20th century. Stories of the Ships is a 1919 collection of accounts described in the first person by those who fought battles on the sea during World War I. It gives the listener a more complete account of the conflicts that defined the most costly war in history. Lewis Ransome Freeman (1878 – 1960) was an American explorer, journalist and war correspondent who wrote over twenty books chronicling his many travels, as well as numerous articles. He became a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1917-18. He was a correspondent attached to the Grand Fleet late in the war, and was a staff member for the Inter-Allied Naval Armistice Commission which traveled to Germany in 1918. (Summary by Jeffery Smith and David Wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Stories of the Ships
• Author credits: Lewis R. Freeman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 7:42:53

Catalogue topics

• ships
• WWI
• war
• military
• British Navy
• navy
• u.s. navy
• grand fleet

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 Stories Of The Ships. Section 1 The Story Of The Cornwall: Plymouth To the Falklands — 41:54
2. 02 - Chapter 1 Stories Of The Ships. Section 2 The Story Of The Cornwall: The Battle Of The Falklands — 40:25
3. 03 - Chapter 1 Stories Of The Ships. Section 3 The Story Of The Sydney: The Signalman’s Tale — 50:18
4. 04 - Chapter 1 Stories Of The Ships. Section 4 The Story Of The Sydney: Naval Hunnism - Some Inside History From The Falkland And Cocos Island Battles — 32:35
5. 05 - Chapter 2 Life In The Fleet. Section 1 A Battleship At Sea — 38:28
6. 06 - Chapter 2 Life In The Fleet. Section 2 A North Sea Sweep — 46:17
7. 07 - Chapter 2 Life In The Fleet. Section 3 A Visit To The British Fleet — 19:35
8. 08 - Chapter 2 Life In The Fleet. Section 4 The Health Of The Fleet — 14:57
9. 09 - Chapter 2 Life In The Fleet. Section 5 Economy In The Grand Fleet — 24:58
10. 10 - Chapter 2 Life In The Fleet. Section 6 Christmas in A ‘Happy’ Ship — 13:28
11. 11 - Chapter 2 Life In The Fleet. Section 7 In A Balloon Ship — 21:46
12. 12 - Chapter 2 Life In The Fleet. Section 8 Coaling The Grand Fleet — 27:11
13. 13 - Chapter 2 Life In The Fleet. Section 9 The Stokers — 20:36
14. 14 - Chapter 3 America Arrives. Section 1 The U.S. Navy — 18:57
15. 15 - Chapter 3 America Arrives. Section 2 ‘Getting Together’: How The Officers Of The British And American Ships That Are Working Together In European Waters Are Making Each Other’s Acquaintance — 14:30
16. 16 - Chapter 3 America Arrives. Section 3 ‘Getting Together’: What The British Bluejacket Thinks Of The American — 17:22
17. 17 - Chapter 3 America Arrives. Section 4 ‘Getting Together’: What The American Bluejacket Thinks Of Britain And The British — 19:36

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.