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The French place an order for 300 of the heavy Char de Rupture 2C/ Char 2C, but only 10 are ever completed. Six are still in use in 1940, but are destroyed by an air attack while still on their special rail cars.
Morane-Saulnier Type AI enters service with Escadrille N.161, which becomes Escadrille MSP.161
The Wickes class destroyer USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) is laid down at Camden, New Jersey. She is named after the USS Jacob Jones (DD-61), and like her earlier name sake was sunk by a U-boat.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Colhoun (DD-85) is launched at the Fore River Shipbuilding Co of Quincy Massachusett. She sees some service late in the First World War and is sunk off Guadalcanal.
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.
