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The Wickes class destroyer USS Crane (DD-109) is launched at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp, San Francisco. She entered service too late for the First World War, but served with the Neutrality Patrol and off the US West Coast during the Second World War.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Elliot (DD-146) is launched at Cramps. She entered service too late for the First World War, but served as a minesweeper around Hawaii, and in the Aleutians, then served as a training ship for the rest of the Second World War
The Wickes class destroyer USS Gridley (DD-92) is launched at the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. She had a brief career after the First World War, most notably supporting the first successful transatlantic flight during 1919
The Wickes class destroyer USS Harding (DD-91) is launched at the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. She had a brief interwar career, mainly as a seaplane tender, before being decommissioned in 1922.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Hart (DD-110) is launched at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco. She operated in the Far East during the 1920s.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Ingraham (DD-111) is launched at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco. She carried out one cruise to Europe in 1919 and then operated as a mine layer at Pearl Harbor in 1921-22
The Wickes class destroyer USS Maury (DD-100) is launched at at Quincy, Mass. She entered service in the last weeks of the First World War, then operated in the Aegean in 1919, and as a minelayer for most of the 1920s.
The Wickes class destroyer USS McKean (DD-99) is launched at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco. She enters service too late for the First World War, but that serves in the Solomon Islands campaign of the Second World War as a fast transport, before being sunk off Bougainville
The Wickes class destroyer USS Upshure (DD-144) is launched at Philadelphia. She serves as a convoy escort ship in the Atlantic for most of the Second World War, and then as a plane guard and target ship in 1944-45
The Wickes class destroyer USS Williams (DD-108) is launched at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco. She is completed too late for service in the First World War, but that sees extensive use as a convoy escort as HMCS St. Clair 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.
