page_title: USS Stewart (DD-224)
section_title: Return to United States Navy and final destruction
hierarchical_section_title: USS Stewart (DD-224) / Service history / Return to United States Navy and final destruction
caption_attribution_description: USS Stewart (DD-224) sinking after use as a target ship off San Francisco (USA), on 25 May 1946. Stewart had been scuttled at Surabaya, Java, on 2 March 1942. The ship was raised by the Japanese and repaired, renamed Patrol Boat No.102. It survived the war and was surrendered by Japan at Kure and returned to U.S. service as DD-224 on 29 October 1945.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: In an emotional ceremony on 29 October 1945, the ship was recommissioned in the United States Navy at Kure. Although officially called simply DD-224, she was nicknamed by her crew "RAMP-224," standing for "Recovered Allied Military Personnel". On the trip home, her engines gave out near Guam, and she arrived at San Francisco, California in early March 1946 at the end of a towline. DD-224 was again struck from the Navy list on 17 April 1946, decommissioned on 23 May 1946, and sunk a day later off San Francisco as a target for aircraft.
  Five Navy F6F Hellcat fighters hit her with 18 rockets and thousands of rounds of 50 calibre ammunition but she refused to go down despite the damage. She was finally sunk by USS PC-799 which finished her off with twelve 40-mm and 17 three-inch shells fired from a range of 300 yards.
caption: DD-224 sinking after use as a target ship
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