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USS Wyoming (BB-32) ends her stint guarding the minelayers creating the North Sea Mine Barrage.
The Cassin class destroyer USS Cassin (DD-43) is able to return to duty after repairs to damage caused when she was torpedoed by U-61 close to Ireland on 15 October 1917.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Stringham (DD-83) is commissioned. She sees limited service towards the end of the First World War, before serving throughout most of the Pacific Campaign of the Second World War as a fast transport
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.
