Peter Booth

Pete Booth, the son of a career Naval Officer, graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in the mid-fifties and was assigned to a Pacific Fleet destroyer and then on to flight training. He went on to serve as a fighter pilot aboard numerous aircraft carriers, then as commanding officer of a large supply ship and ended his Navy seagoing days as the CO of the aircraft carrier, Forrestal. During his final years of active Navy duty, he sat for and obtained his all oceans, unlimited masters license. Retiring from the Navy in the mid-eighties, he served as second mate on the SS Constitution out of Honolulu and then as master of several ocean-going research ships, sailing to far northern Atlantic waters and in drug interdiction missions in the Pacific. Before and after these voyages, he was president of two publicly owned maritime companies, American Cruise Lines and Europa Cruise Lines. He is the author of three published works, a novel, Humble in Victory, a journals of his Navy life, True Faith and Allegiance and a just-published maritime journals, Sea Buoy Outbound. Living for the past twenty years in the Navy town of Pensacola, Florida, he and his wife Carolyn travel a good bit, see their two daughters and four grandsons in Atlanta and enjoy life in the retired lane.

HUMBLE IN VICTORY: A GREAT NOVEL OF A GENDER-EQUAL HEROIC US NAVY IN 2010 AT WAR WITH THE IRAQIS, SAUDIS AND IRANIANS OVER CASPIAN SEA OIL. 4,000 happy readers. Pete sez:"Better than Tom Clancy by a long shot." 452 pages of heroism in the cockpits and on the deckplates and of young Americans taking on the tough and dangerous job of fighting the war at sea and in the air. Published on 9/11, most of it has come true. Check the web for some reader comments.

TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE: A WHIRLWIND JOURNEY IN THE NAVYS FAST LANES IN THE AIR AND ON THE SEAS DURING THE COLD WAR THE MOST PERILOUS YEARS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR NATION. Carrier-based Navy fighter pilot; inside the Pentagon; aide to the top guy; JO on a Pacific destroyer; Skipper of Forrestal. Published in 2005, True Faith has had a legion of happy readers. Check the web.

SEA BUOY OUTBOUND: A JOURNALS SPANNING FOUR-PLUS DECADES OF GOING DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS, BOTH NAVY AND CIVILIAN. The romance, the fun, the challenges and mystic of the maritime arena. The opening short paragraph of the prologue reads:

As the ship wends its way toward the open sea, drops off the pilot, cranks the engines to sea speed and leaves the sea buoy to port, one can almost touch the sense of what might be, of mini-adventures to come in the voyage. Magically, the ship becomes cleaner, the crew more relaxed; the watch teams settle in and we all look forward to the knowing swell of the ocean, the wind on the bridge wing and, if lucky, a world-class sunset broad on the starboard bow.