'Ghost Ship of the Pacific,' which fought on both sides in WWII, discovered near San Francisco

Live Science ^ | October 3, 2024 | Tom Metcalfe

[SunkenCiv]

The Stewart started the war as a U.S. destroyer designated DD-224 and was ordered to Borneo in November 1941, shortly before the U.S. entered World War II. It served as an escort vessel with other American warships in the first months of the Pacific War, but it was badly damaged by gunfire from Japanese warships near Bali in February 1942, during the Battle of Badung Strait.

The Stewart managed to return to Surabaya on the island of Java. But the port came under Japanese attack, so the vessel was scuttled — deliberately sunk — by its own crew, who set off explosives in its hull. A year later, however, Japanese raised the sunken warship and it served as a patrol boat for the Imperial Japanese Navy until the war ended in 1945.

The ship again came under U.S. control when Japan surrendered on Sept, 2, 1945. The vessel was briefly recommissioned as DD-224 by the U.S. Navy, but by then it was in poor shape. It was finally decommissioned in May 1946 and then used for target practice.

[Rummyfan]

Thanks I have already read it .... and it was a great story.

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They also Winslow, W. G. The Fleet the Gods Forgot: The U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II from 1982.

South to Java by William P. Mack is a week written fictional treatment of the same subject from the perspective is a four-stack destroyer crew.

[Jet Jaguar]

Good Post.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!