Sims class destroyers (1938)
The 12 Sims class destroyers were a complete revision of previous designs, smaller, according to the London Treaty. Four were lost during WW2.
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What you’ll likely want to know: the Sims-class destroyers were a 1939–1940 US Navy class, with 12 ships designed as a revision of earlier wartime destroyers. They saw action in the Pacific during World War II and suffered several losses, with some later used as targets in atomic tests at Bikini Atoll after the war.[3][9]
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Common questions people have about this class: which ships were sunk during the war (e.g., USS Sims), which survived and how they were decommissioned, and how this class influenced later destroyer designs.[7][9][3]
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