Full Speed Ahead: Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent
Henry Beston
Read 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 (4 hr 48 min)
Chapters
| Preface | 2:18 | Read by David Wales |
| An Heroic Journey; Into The Dark; Friend Or Foe? | 29:19 | Read by David Wales |
| Running Submerged; The Return Of The Captains; Our Sailors | 29:29 | Read by David Wales |
| The Base; The Destroyer And Her Problem; Torpedoed; The End Of A Submarine | 33:57 | Read by David Wales |
| 'Fishing'; Amusements; Storm; On Night Patrol; Camouflage | 45:22 | Read by David Wales |
| Tragedy; 'Consolidation Not Cooperation'; Machine Against Machine; The Legend O… | 39:01 | Read by David Wales |
| To Sea With The Fleet; 'Sky Pilots'; In The Wireless Room; Marines | 31:35 | Read by David Wales |
| Ships Of The Air; The Sailor In London; The Armed Guard; Going Aboard | 32:44 | Read by David Wales |
| Grain; Collision | 19:26 | Read by David Wales |
| The Raid By The River; On Having Been Both A Soldier And A Sailor | 25:38 | Read by David Wales |