Ships
- USS Louisville (CA-28) Captain from 9 April 1934 · Relieved on 9 November 1935
George Vanderburgh Stewart was a captain in the United States Navy. He took command of the heavy cruiser Louisville on 9 April 1934 and remained her commanding officer until 9 November 1935. In those months the ship belonged to the United States Fleet in the Pacific, and her work was the long cruise and the large fleet exercise that filled the Navy's years under the naval treaties.
Louisville was a Northampton-class cruiser, built at the Puget Sound Navy Yard. She was launched on 1 September 1930 and commissioned on 15 January 1931, with Edward J. Marquart in command. On 1 July 1931 the Navy reclassified her as a heavy cruiser, CA-28, under the terms of the London Naval Treaty. Her main battery was nine 8-inch guns. Before Stewart's appointment she had made a shakedown from Bremerton to New York by way of the Panama Canal, joined the fleet problem of 1932, drilled off San Pedro and San Diego, steamed to Hawaii in the winter of 1933, and served for a time as a school ship for antiaircraft training.
His tour opened with the ship leaving San Diego in April 1934 on a nine-month cruise. Louisville called at ports in Central America and the Caribbean and along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, showing the flag on both sides of the continent. Late in May 1934 she lay at New York. She was back in California in the late fall, and through the winter she stayed in Pacific waters for gunnery practice and tactical drills.
In the spring of 1935 Louisville sailed north to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and then to Pearl Harbor to join that year's fleet problem. The exercises put the fleet to work across the broad Pacific, at a distance from its usual bases. Stewart kept the cruiser through the return to training on the West Coast. He was relieved on 9 November 1935.
William Sims Farber was in command of Louisville by March 1937, when she took passengers aboard at Pearl Harbor. In the Pacific war the cruiser went on to a long series of raids and invasion bombardments. In 1944 she flew the flag of Jesse Barrett Oldendorf for the gunfire support of the island landings, and that October she fought in the Battle of Surigao Strait. She came through the war with thirteen battle stars.