The USS Stewart (DE-238)
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THE USSS STEWART:
Length: 306 ft
Compliment: 201 enlisted
sailors, 8 officers
Power: Diesel
Class: Edsall
Commissioned: May 31, 1943
Decommissioned: January 1947
USS Stewart (DE 238) is an Edsall-class destroyer escort built by Brown Shipbuilding in
Houston. Destroyer Escorts were designed to be antisubmarine surface vessels that protected slow-moving convoys. They were small, unarmored, and thin hulled to maximize
maneuverability, characteristics which earned them the nickname “Tin Cans.”
Stewart assisted in more than 30 transports during her service and even
rescued a pair of tankers, the SS Saint Mihiel and SS Nashbulk, that collided and
caught fire. Crews from Stewart and USS Edsall fought the fires and towed both
vessels more than 500 miles back to the Navy Shipyard in New York.
The Stewart protected convoys transporting troops and commercial cargo across the
Atlantic from German submarines (U-boats). She primarily served in the Atlantic, but at the
time the war ended, she was en route to the Pacific—meaning she sailed in both seas.
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