Full speed ahead, and nobody at the wheel
With Nell Ashby
A short one. What actually happens in the engine room when the bridge asks for more, and why the answer used to involve shouting.
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historian, but then content to chronicle the interesting incidents of the daily life,
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as well as the achievements and heroisms of the friends who keep the highways of the sea.
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To my hosts of the United States Navy, one and all, I am under deep obligation for the courtesy
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and hospitality everywhere extended to me on my visit. But surely the greatest of my obligations
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is that owed to Secretary Daniels for the personal permission which made possible my journey,
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and for the goodwill with which he saw me on my way. And no acknowledgement, no matter how
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studied or courtly its phrasing, can express what I owe to Admiral Sims for the friendliness of my
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reception, for his care that I be shown all the Navy's activities, and for his constant and kindly
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effort to advance my work in every possible way. To Admiral Hugh Rodman of the battleship squadron,
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his sometime guest here renders thanks for the opportunity given him to spend some
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ten days aboard the American flagship, and for the welcome which makes his stay aboard so pleasant
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a memory. I would not end without a word of thanks to the enlisted men for their unfailing goodwill
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and ever courteous behavior. Lucky is the correspondent sent to the Navy. H. B. B.
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Topps Field and Quincy 1919. End of preface.