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SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau put to sea at the start of their final sortie, which ends on the following day with the Goeben badly damaged and the Breslau lost.
Paulding class destroyer USS Burrows (DD-29) is damaged by a fire at sea that kills two, and takes several efforts to extinguish, with the aid of several other ships. The damage is fairly minor, and she is back at sea by the end of January
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.
