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, though some are "written up" from the
records and others set down after interviews. In writing them, I have not sought
the laurels of an official historian, but 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.