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Stewart

Class	Clemson class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-224
Builder	William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia
Launched	1920-03-04
Commissioned	1920-09-15
Fate	Sunk. Damaged by Japanese destroyer gunfire in Badung Strait on 20 February 1942. The ship that hit her is not named. Not sunk there. Fell off the blocks in a Surabaya drydock, was wrecked, and was left behind on 2 March 1942. The Japanese raised her in 1943 as Patrol Boat No. 102. Recovered in 1945. This is the same hull. Decommissioned 23 May 1946 and sunk as a target on 24 May 1946.
Armament (class)	Flush-deck four-piper, the same pattern as the Wickes class.
Command	Smith, Harold Page Captain from 18 May 1940; Relieved on 2 March 1942

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Stewart was a Clemson-class destroyer, DD-224, a four-piper of the Asiatic Fleet. William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia laid her down on 9 September 1919, launched her on 4 March 1920, and the navy commissioned her on 15 September 1920. She was named for Rear Admiral Charles Stewart. The later escort of the same name is a different ship.

Harold Page Smith had her from 18 May 1940. On the night of 19–20 February 1942 she was in the second wave in Badung Strait, with the Dutch cruiser Tromp. Japanese destroyer gunfire flooded her steering-engine room. The ship that hit her is not named. She was not sunk in the strait. She got back to Surabaya.

She went into the floating drydock there on 22 February and fell off the blocks. Demolition charges were set, a Japanese bomb hit her, and the dock was scuttled before the port was evacuated on 2 March. Smith left her that day.

The Japanese raised her in 1943 and used her as Patrol Boat No. 102. American forces recovered the same hull in 1945. She was decommissioned on 23 May 1946 and sunk as a target the next day.

The pictures on this page are the originals.