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The Wickes class destroyer USS Wickes (DD-75) is commissioned. After a brief spell of service late in the First World War she took part in the US Neutrality Patrol in 1939-40, before being transferred to the Royal Navy, where she served as HMS Montgomery
The Wickes class destroyer USS Bell (DD-95) is commissioned. She escorted convoys across the Atlantic late in the First World War, but entered the reserve in 1922 and was never recommissioned.
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.
