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The Wickes class destroyer USS Murray (DD-97) is launched at Quincy, Mass. She operated in European waters late in the First World War and then served as a minelayer in the immediate post-war period.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Ramsay (DD-124) is launched at Newport News. She entered service too late for the First World War, but that served as a light minelayer and anti submarine patrol vessel during 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.
