Full Speed Ahead: Tales from the Log of a Correspondent with Our Navy

A first-person chronicle records months spent aboard warships and submarines during wartime, combining personal anecdotes, technical observations, and eyewitness reports. Chapters range from storm-bound crossings, patrol duties, and torpedo and collision incidents to daily life aboard destroyers, submarine operations, wireless-room work, and shore interactions in port cities. The narrative highlights sailors' routines, camaraderie, and dangers, describes small-scale rescues and losses, and sketches logistical challenges such as provisioning and cargo handling. Interspersed reflections consider tactics, machine-versus-machine encounters, and the morale and amusements of crews, producing a varied portrait of naval service at sea and ashore.