Two boxes in main run: Eight journals and diaries covering the period circa 1914 - 191935, including Sim's service on HMS AMPHITRITE and HMS STERLING. Oversize box: Two scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings, photographs, ephemera and letters relating to Sim's service in the period 1912-1939. Chart of the southeast coast of China from Hong Kong to the Brothers, circa 1930. Mounted barograph recording from HMS STERLING showing the typhoon at Hong Kong on 22 August 1929. Copies of the Coronation Orders, 1937. Typescript copy of an Admiralty publication providing service records of Town Class destroyers during the Second World War, 1949. Commission as sub-lieutenant in 1918, memorial scroll, portrait photographs and other papers.

Administrative / biographical background
Sim was born at Peebles in Scotland and entered the Royal Naval College at Osborne in January 1912. During the First World War he served as a midshipman and sub-lieutenant on the cruiser HMS AMPHITRITE and the battleship HMS BARHAM. He was wounded in the torpedo attack on the destroyer HMS BRISK in Rathlin Sound on 2 October 1917. He was in command of the destroyer HMS STERLING on the China station in 1929-1931 and the destroyer HMS WOLFHOUND in the Home Fleet in 1932-1933. He then had appointments at shore establishments, including Drafting Commander at Devonport Barracks, before returning to sea as executive officer of the cruiser HMS ARETHUSA in the Mediterranean. Following promotion to the rank of captain in 1940, he worked with the US Navy in transferring destroyers into service with the Royal Navy. He was killed in action when the cruiser HMS GALATEA was torpedoed and sunk off Alexandria in December 1941.