Allied Warships

USS Sims (ii) (DE 154)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 154 
Built byNorfolk Navy Yard (Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down7 Sep 1942 
Launched6 Feb 1943 
Commissioned24 Apr 1943 
End service24 Apr 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Converted to Hugh Speed Transport and reclassified as APD-50 on 5 September 1944.
Decommissioned 24 April 1946.
Stricken 1 June 1960.
Sold 14 April 1961 and broken up for scrap.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. Charles G. Raible, USN24 Apr 1943???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts

Bruce Hampton Franklin

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