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The Wickes class destroyer USS Taylor (DD-94) is launched at Mare Island, California. She enters service in time to take part in the First World War, but had been reduced to a hulk by the outbreak of the Second World War.
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.
