US Navy ordered building large numbers of destroyers according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1917-1918 no. 6

An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau no. 2 reporting that the US Navy ordered the building of a large number of destroyers of 6.000 tons (?), including 15 at Cramp. 6 at Union Iron Works and 16 at Fore River Company. The public tender for the building of 140-750 ton torpedo boats was now being prepared.