OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 22457, 30 September 1936, Page 9

OBITUARY

ADMIRAL WILLIAM SIMS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BOSTON, September 28. The death has occurred of Admiral William Sims.

[Admiral William Sowden Sims, was born at Port Hope, Canada, October 15, 1858. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1879, and entered the American navy as a lieutenant in the same year. During the Spanish-American War, 1898, ho was naval attache in Paris, and two years later was assigned to duty on the Kentucky, afterwards' becoming fleet intelligence officer on the staff of the Commander-in-Chiei, United States Asiatic Station. 1n'1902

he was placed at the head of the office of target practice, Navy Department. Promoted commander, Sims commanded the battleship, Minnesota, United States Atlantic Fleet, 190911. He then went to the Naval War College, Newport, and during the second year of his course was a member of the War College Staff. In 1913 he was made commander of the torpedo flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet, and in 1915 was given the command of the dreadnought Nevada. On the entry of the U.S.A. into the Great War, .he was put in charge of the operations of the American vessels in European waters, and in 1918 was made Vice-Admiral. After the war he was reappointed president of the War College. In 1921, during a visit to England, he was recalled owing to his speech condemning Sinn Fein. He published 1 The Victory at Sea,’ 1920, which won the Pulitzer prize of £250 for the best book of the year on American history.]