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The Wickes class destroyer USS Mahan (DD-102) is launched at Quincy, Mass. She enters service just before the end of the First World War, and serves as a fast minelayer during the 1920s.
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.
