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Wickes class destroyer USS Israel (DD-98) is launched at Quincy, Mass. She entered service late in the First World War, then served as a minelayer in the immediate post-war period
Wickes class destroyer USS Hazelwood (DD-107) is launched at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco. She served in the Mediterranean just after the First World War, off the US West Coast in the early 1920s, and as a training ship in the second half of the 1920s.
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.
