USS Stewart (DD-224)

USS Stewart underway before WWII
History
United States
Name:	USS Stewart
Namesake:	Charles Stewart
Builder:	William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Laid down:	9 September 1919
Launched:	4 March 1920
Sponsored by:	Mrs. Margaretta Stewart Stevens
Commissioned:	15 September 1920
Struck:	25 March 1942
Identification:	DD-224
Honors and awards:	2 battle stars
Fate:	Scuttled at Surabaya, Java, 2 March 1942; later raised and commissioned into Imperial Japanese Navy
Reacquired:	August 1945
Renamed:	DD-224
Recommissioned:	29 October 1945
Decommissioned:	23 May 1946
Struck:	17 April 1946
Fate:	Sunk as a target, 24 May 1946
Japan
Name:	Patrol boat No.102 (Dai-102-Gō shōkaitei)
Builder:	102nd Naval Construction Department at Surabaya
Acquired:	February 1943 (raised)
Commissioned:	20 September 1943
Fate:	Surrendered, August 1945
General characteristics (as Clemson-class destroyer)
Class and type:	Clemson-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,215 short tons (1,102 t)
Length:	314 ft 5 in (95.83 m)
Beam:	31 ft 9 in (9.68 m)
Draft:	9 ft 4 in (2.84 m)
Propulsion:	geared turbines
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement:	101 officers and enlisted
Armament:	4 × 4-inch (102 mm), 1 × 3-inch (76 mm), 12 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
General characteristics (as Patrol Boat No. 102)
Class and type:	none
Displacement:	1,680 long tons (1,707 t) standard
Length:	98.70 m (323 ft 10 in) overall
Draft:	3.50 m (11 ft 6 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Parsons all geared steam turbines 4 × White-Foster water tube boilers 2 shafts, 14,000 shp (10,000 kW)
Speed:	26.0 knots (29.9 mph; 48.2 km/h)
Endurance:	2,400 nautical miles @ 12 knots (4,400 km @ 22 km/h)
Complement:	110 (September 1943)
Sensors and processing systems:	1 × Type 93 active sonar (replaced 1 × Type 3 active sonar on March 1945), 1 × Type 93 hydrophone (added on September 1944)
Electronic warfare & decoys:	1 × 22-Gō surface search radar (added on March 1945) 1 × 13-Gō early warning radar (added on May 1945)
Armament:	September 1943 2 × 3-inch (76 mm) guns (Dutch) 2 × 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine guns (Dutch) 2 × 6.5 mm 11th Year type machine guns 72 × Type 95 depth charges June 1945 (final) 2 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) L/40 3rd Year type AA guns 14 × 25 mm Type 96 AA guns 4 × 13 mm Type 93 AA guns 2 × 6.5 mm 11th Year type machine guns 4 × 450 mm (18 in) Type 2 torpedoes 72 × Type 2 depth charges

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 a port, she was later raised by the Japanese and commissioned as Patrol Boat No. 102. She came back under American control in 1945 after the occupation of Japan.

Stewart was laid down on 9 September 1919 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia; launched on 4 March 1920; sponsored by Mrs. Margaretta Stewart Stevens, granddaughter of Rear Admiral Stewart; and commissioned on 15 September 1920, Lieutenant S. G. Lamb in command.

After a year of coastal operations with a reserve division, Stewart joined Destroyer Squadron, Atlantic, on 12 October 1921. She participated in fleet exercises in the Caribbean from 12 January to 22 April 1922; and, after repairs, departed Newport, Rhode Island, on 20 June and proceeded, via the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, to the Philippines for service in the Asiatic Fleet. She was destined not to return to the US for 23 years.

Arriving at Chefoo, China, on 26 August, Stewart entered the routine of the Asiatic Fleet, conducting training exercises from bases at Chefoo and Tsingtao in the summer and Manila in the winter and making calls at Chinese ports during the transit in each direction. Her routine was broken briefly between 6 and 21 September 1923 by a voyage to Yokosuka, Japan, to relieve victims of the Great Kantō earthquake which had heavily damaged that city and Tokyo on 30 and 31 August.