The Fighting Fleets

About this book

MY first glimpse of these splendid destroyers of ours was from the deck of a liner out of an American port, cracking on at nineteen knots through the war-zone, navy gun crews standing watch and watch, smoke-boxes ready to be dropped overside, passengers prudently girdled with life-belts, regarding it as a great adventure to imperil their precious lives in daring the Atlantic voyage.