The Sims-class destroyers were twelve ships built for the United States Navy and commissioned in 1939 and 1940, the last American destroyer class completed before the United States entered the Second World War. They were built under the Second London Naval Treaty, which lifted the limit on the standard displacement of a destroyer while keeping an overall limit, so the Navy kept the design only 70 tons larger than earlier destroyers in order to build more of them. The Sims class were the last American single-stack destroyers, driven by Westinghouse steam turbines with three oil-fired Babcock and Wilcox boilers. All saw action in the war, five were lost, and four of the survivors were used as targets in the 1946 Bikini atomic tests. No ship of the class served after 1946. Bath Iron Works in Maine built two of the twelve, Sims and Hughes.
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The Sims-class destroyers were built for the United States Navy
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The Sims-class destroyers were welded steel vessels with an overall length of 348.3 feet, a waterline length of 341.4 feet, a 36.1-foot beam, a 19.8-foot depth, and a 17.4-foot draft.
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The twin screws were driven by Westinghouse steam turbines and three oil-fired Babcock and Wilcox boilers, rated at 50,000 shaft horsepower at 35 knots.
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The twin screws were driven by Westinghouse steam turbines and three oil-fired Babcock and Wilcox boilers, rated at 50,000 shaft horsepower at 35 knots.
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The Sims-class destroyers were built for the United States Navy
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The Sims-class destroyers were built for the United States Navy, and commissioned in 1939 and 1940.
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No ship of this class saw service after 1946.
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The Sims-class destroyers were built for the United States Navy, and commissioned in 1939 and 1940.
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The class served extensively in World War II, and five of the class were lost in the war.
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