USS W. S. Sims

Admiral William Sowden Sims spent his career dragging the U.S. Navy into the modern era — reforming gunnery, championing convoy tactics in World War I, and arguing loudly for a Navy that could actually fight and win. The Knox-class frigate that bore his name was commissioned in 1970 and embodied that same working ethos: no glamour, just results. W. S. Sims deployed with NATO forces in the Atlantic and Mediterranean as a Cold War anti-submarine warfare platform through the 1970s and 1980s, doing the work that kept the sea lanes open. Decommissioned in 1993 and transferred to Turkey — a ship that earned its name.