SIMS, WILLIAM SOWDEN

(1858), American vice-admiral; 6. in Port Hope, Canada. He graduated at U. 8. Naval Academy in 1880, and rose to be captain in 1911; rear-admiral, January, 1917; vice-admiral, May, 1917. After serving on North Atlantic, Pacific, and China stations was naval attaché U. S. emba ies at Paris and Petrograd, 1897-1900; commander Asiatic Fleet, 1901-2; naval-aid under President Roosevelt, 1908-9; commander of the Minnesota, 1909-11; staff of Naval War Colleze, Newport, R. 1., 1911-13; commander, Atlantic torpedo flotilla, 1913-| 15; commandant naval station Narraghansett Bay; president Naval War College, Newport, R. I., 1916; naval representative and observer in Great Britain, and after the United States entered the World War commanded U. S. fleet in European waters, April, 4917. He returned to his duties at the Naval College after the war and retired October 15, 1922. Decorations: British Grand Cro , 1918; British Order of Merit, 1919.