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USS Stewart (DE–238) is an Edsall-class destroyer escort, the third United States Navy ship so named. This ship was named for Rear Admiral Charles Stewart (28 July 1778 – 6 November 1869), who commanded USS Constitution during the War of 1812 .
USS Stewart (DD-224) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the second ship named for Rear Admiral Charles Stewart . Scuttled in port at Surabaya, Java, she was later raised by the Japanese and commissioned as Patrol Boat No. 102 .
Soon, distant sightings of The Stewart led to rumors about an American “ghost ship” operating deep behind enemy lines. It earned the nickname “the Ghost Ship of the Pacific.”
The USS Stewart was deliberately sunk during a US Navy exercise in May 1946 and its final resting place has now been located, according to a statement from the Air Sea Heritage Foundation and ...
The Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Stewart (DE-238) is preserved in Galveston, Texas. The Cannon-class destroyer escort USS Slater (DE-766) is preserved in Albany, New York. The Cannon-class destroyer escort BNS Bauru (BE-4), formerly USS McAnn (DE-179) is preserved in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Then, when the war ended, the warship was found afloat in Kure, Japan, and was recommissioned back into the US Navy. In a post-war era naval exercise, USS Stewart was deliberately sunk on May 24 ...
USS Stewart (DD-224), a Clemson-class destroyer, commissioned in 1920 and decommissioned in 1946. She served briefly in the Imperial Japanese Navy, after being sunk and abandoned. USS Stewart (DE-238), is an Edsall-class destroyer escort, commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1947.
The USS Stewart, once called the "Ghost Ship of the Pacific," served on the front lines of World War II. It was stationed in Manila as part of the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Fleet, ...