



Produced by Al Haines








[Frontispiece: "A destroyer is by no means a paradise of comfort"]




  FULL SPEED
  AHEAD

  Tales from the Log of a Correspondent
  with Our Navy


  BY

  HENRY B. BESTON



  GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
  DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
  1919




  Copyright, 1919, by
  DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
  All rights reserved, including that of
  translation into foreign languages,
  including the Scandinavian

  Copyright, 1918, by The Atlantic Monthly Company
  Copyright, 1918, by The Curtis Publishing Company
  Copyright, 1918, by The North American Review Pub. Co,
  Copyright, 1918, by The American National Red Cross
  Copyright, 1918, by The Outlook Company




  To
  MAJOR GEORGE MAURICE SHEAHAN
  HARVARD UNIT R.A.M.C.

  A Forerunner of the Great Crusade.




PREFACE

These tales are memories of several months spent as a special
correspondent attached to the forces of the American Navy on foreign
service.  Many of the little stories are personal experiences, th