Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS ''Sims'' for
William Sowden Sims
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
. Additionally, one other ship was named ''Admiral W. S. Sims'' for the same man.
*The destroyer , served in World War II, sunk by the Japanese, 1942
*The destroyer escort , commissioned 1943, decommissioned 1946.
*The
USS ''W. S. Sims'' (DE-1059) (later FF-1059), commissioned 1970, decommissioned 1991.
* The transport vessel
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United States Navy ship names