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U-82 torpedoes the troop transport Mount Vernon. Nicholson (DD-52), Winslow (DD-53), Wainwright (DD-62) and Conner (DD-72) all attempt to depth charge the submarine, but she escapes. The Mount Vernon survives and is back in service by February 1919.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Tattnall (DD-125) is launched at Camden, New Jersey. She enters service just to late for the First World War, but that serves as a convoy escort and then a fast transport during the Second World War.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Barney (DD-149) is launched at Cramps. She enters service in 1919 and during the Second World War serves on convoy escort duties in the Caribbean, as well as escorting two trans-Atlantic convoys.
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.
