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Sims

Class	Sims class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-409
Fate	Sunk. 7 May 1942 in the Coral Sea while escorting the oiler Neosho. Japanese carrier aircraft. Not credited to one ship. This is DD-409, the name ship of the class.
Armament (class)	Five 5-inch guns and one funnel.
Command	Griswold, W. A. Captain from 1 August 1939

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

USS Sims (DD-409) was a destroyer of the United States Navy and the name ship of the Sims class. The class took its name from this hull. W. A. Griswold was her captain from 1 August 1939.

Her listed battle is the Battle of the Coral Sea, dated 8 May 1942, with her own loss set on 7 May. That day she was escorting the oiler Neosho in the Coral Sea, well south of the carriers.

Japanese carrier aircraft found the two ships and took them for a carrier and a cruiser. The oiler and her escort were read as a carrier force.

Bombs from those carrier aircraft sank Sims. The sinking is credited to the Japanese carrier aircraft, and to no single ship among them.

She went down on 7 May 1942 in the Coral Sea while still with Neosho. DD-409, the destroyer that gave the Sims class its name, ended under that attack.

The pictures on this page are the originals.