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The USS Stewart (DE-238)

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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