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W S SIMS

The USS W S Sims is an American Knox Class frigate of 3011 tons standard displacement launched in 1969. The USS W S Sims is powered by two Combustion Engineering boilers providing a top speed of 27 knots and a range of 6400 km at 22 knots running on one boiler. She carries a crew of 288 including 17 officers and is armed with eight McDonnell Douglas Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles; a Honeywell ASROC Mk 16 octuple anti-ship launcher; one FMC 5 inch/54 Mk 42 Mod 9 dual-purpose gun; a General Electric/General Dynamics 20 mm/76 6-barrelled Mk 15 Vulcan Phalanx gun and two pairs of 324 mm Mk 32 torpedo tubes taking the Honeywell Mk 46 and Mk 50 torpedoes. A SH-2F LAMPS I helicopter is also carried.
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