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The Wickes class destroyer USS Badger (DD-126) is launched at Camden, New Jersey. She enters service too late for the First World War, and spends most of the Second World War operating in the Atlantic, carrying out a mix of escort and anti-submarine warfare duties
The Wickes class destroyer USS Philip (DD-76) is commissioned. She enters service just before the end of the First World War, and sees more service in the Second World War as HMS Lancaster.
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.
