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The Wickes class destroyer USS Little (DD-79) is commissioned. She serves with the Patrol Force, Coast of France, during the rest of the First World War.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Fairfax (DD-93) is commissioned. She escorts convoys in the Western Atlantic and along the US East Coast during the rest of the First World War.
The Coln class light cruiser SMS Rostock is launched. She is never commissioned and is broken up in 1922.
U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History, Norman Friedmann .
The standard history of the development of American destroyers, from the earliest torpedo boat destroyers to the post-war fleet, and covering the massive classes of destroyers built for both World Wars. Gives the reader a good understanding of the debates that surrounded each class of destroyer and led to their individual features.
USS Little (DD-79) at Brest, 27 October 1918 