USS "Sims" (DD-409) – the US destroyer

USS "Sims" (DD-409) – the US destroyer of the interwar and World War II period. The keel was laid in 1937, launched in April 1939. The length of the destroyer - 106.17 meters; width - 10.97 meters. Displacement - about 2200 tons, maximum speed - about 35 knots. At the beginning of the service the armament consisted of five 127 mm guns, eight 533 mm torpedo tubes and depth charge launchers. USS “Sims” (DD-409) was the first ship of this class. They were designed and built on the basis of a supplemented and partially modified “Benham”-class destroyer project. Compared to their predecessors, they were slightly larger, slightly slower, but had more powerful artillery and torpedo armament. USS “Sims”, at the time of the United States' entry into World War II, was assigned to the 17th Task Force, which was created around the aircraft carrier USS “Yorktown”. At the turn of 1941 and 1942 USS “Sims” sailed from the US west coast to Samoa, escorting one of the American convoys. In 1942 in February, as part of the 17th Task Force, it was supposed to attack Wake Island, but at the last minute the order was changed. USS "Sims» sunk on May 7, 1942 during the Battle in the Coral Sea.

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